It's nothing really noteworthy. Just that modern cookbooks tend to be more overglorified blogs than cookbooks. Even "pure" cookbooks (like, 1-2 recipes per page kind of thing) tend to have a paragraph prior to each recipe telling some story, and inevitably, unneeded "representation" or "intersectional" things are going to come up in those (already unneeded) anecdotes.
It's nothing really noteworthy. Just that modern cookbooks tend to be more overglorified blogs than cookbooks. Even "pure" cookbooks (like, 1-2 recipes per page kind of thing) tend to have a paragraph prior to each recipe telling some story, and inevitably, unneeded "representation" or "intersectional" things are going to come up in those (already unneeded) anecdotes.