"Not much has changed in over four hundred years,’ wrote Witold Rybczynski more than forty years later, his recipe for late-twentieth-century domestic comfort based in unashamed nostalgia for Western bourgeois traditions of luxury, ease, clutter, privacy and intimacy.5 It is in this sense, then, that the Café de Flore was appropriated, for de Beauvoir and for Sartre, as an intimate space - as their”
Cooking hasn't changed that much over many years of cooking as shown from Witold Rybczynski as the nostalgia of his cooking has been there through tradition in many places radiating the energy he's intended that food for..
Dishes have deep meanings behind them even if you don't know that which is what makes it so stressful for a cook to create something, as they have to keep that meaning of the dish.