the.com/home cooking
the only cuisine where the chef also does the dishes and complains about it.
means food made at home, usually from whatever's in the fridge, with love as an unlisted ingredient and salt as a listed one.
from the phrase dates to when eating out was rare and 'home cooking' just meant food, full stop — it only became a category once restaurants gave it competition.
comfort baselinemost people's flavor memory is calibrated to their mother's version
restaurant flatterymenus say home-style to mean simple, not fancy
secret ingredientusually just more butter than admitted