>> “We all hate shifting through lifestyle guru stuff to see if we need one egg or two,” another wrote.<p>I don't understand this. If all you want is the nitty-gritty on some recipe, why do you absolutely have to get the recipe from a foodie blog? Can't you visit one of the many, many recipe aggregator sites that have no personal narratives whatsover? I don't want to point to any one in particular but, say, if I search on DDG for "how to make shepherd's pie" and with a quick round of eyballing it seems pretty much all the results in the first page are bare-bones recipe listings, without any life stories whatsoever. The longest piece is one on Gordon Ramsey's recipe for the dish and that is not expounding on how grandma used to make it, it's just being exceedingly loquatious with the instructions.<p>I also have to point out that there are tons of recipes in probably literally millions of physical recipe books offline. I live in the same house as a lady who owns a restaurant and the libraries here are straining under the load of recipe books to cook basically any dish from basically any cuisine in the world, with any ingredients you may imagine. Food blogs with long personal experiences are very far from being the only way to get a quick idea about how to cook some dish.