[CRConrad]

I can't help that you paid God knows how much extra for this unnecessary fluff. If I were to get any of those, I'd look around for the least extraneous-fluff-y offer I could find. :-)

More seriously: At least the classes and restaurants already push that stuff in their marketing, don't they? So I get all that already doing my comparison shopping, and therefore would probably actually (at least to some extent) resent the time wasted on repeating it. And the few cookboks I (or we, my wife and I) have are also of the matter-of-fact, recipes and nothing more, kind... I am probably just much less of a "foodie" than you. I think my preference pattern is the overwhelming majority.

Note that Clovegarden has "the history of nut x in remote tribal desert y, etc" too -- but on pages separate from the recipes. (As I recall Mr Grygus started the site in preparation for starting a business of selling foodie stuff online after winding up his computing and automation consultancy business -- but that still seems to linger on, and he is nearing [or, probably, well past?] normal retiring age, so I don't know if that new business will ever materialise. But as long as he is up to updating Clovegarden every now and then it remains my favourite site for food-related stuff.)

[Edit: Ttypo.]