>I personally just hated the long-form-journalism style of "okay, at the start, you have to wade through a ton of irrelevant crap about the settings and the coil-bound notebooks they're using".

Yeah, I'm really glad this was the top comment. That style of journalism has become all pervasive today, and the grotesque self indulgence of it is honestly sickening. I refer to it as "college term paper journalism", because they all read like a sophomore English 102 essay.

I'm convinced lots of sites do this just to push out the actual content below the "please login / buy subscription to continue reading" point, or if it is a free article at least make you scroll through as many inline ads as they can.

For recipes, yeah, but this sounds like just the writer taking artistic license to write how they want.

I liked it, for what it's worth.