Blacklist: Bon Appetit's Healthyish

My beef with this site is the enormous weight on that "ish" suffix, which apparently absolves BA of any responsibility to provide the reader any sound nutrition information. I see no nutritionists or dieticians on their masthead. This is a small gripe, though, because there are individuals without formal training, like Eugene Teo, with a wealth of nutritional knowledge sharing useful content. The kicker is that BA does not provide nutrition facts (or even calories and macro counts) on any of these "healthyish" recipes. Yes, it's easy enough to determine this on one's own, but we are talking about a site catering to those purportedly interested in healthy eating, so it's a complete sham that this data isn't provided up front. Even America's Test Kitchen, which dedicates entire TV episodes to sticky buns and dacquoises, lists nutrition facts for every recipe.

As for the actual recipes, many of them are rife with fresh vegetables, nuts, and other whole foods and are generally non-objectionable. But are we really going to pretend that carbonara with asparagus instead of guanciale is healthy, since it's still a bunch of carbs and fat? At that point, just go with the original cured pork jowl and ditch the side of self-delusion.

Perhaps, as someone who consumes 150 g of protein a day, I am not Healthyish's target audience. What grinds my gears is that the content of this website is not so much healthy, as simply "ish."

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