I don't see how my suggestion is constraining anyone. If anything, it's liberating them. All I am saying is that culinary traditions around the world have slow

I don't see how my suggestion is constraining anyone. If anything, it's liberating them. All I am saying is that culinary traditions around the world have slowly evolved dishes around the ingredients and dietary constraints they had available to them, and it's useful to learn from them to see what all can be done with a particular set of ingredients. This is more liberating (you have the whole world's culinary experience to pick from) rather than constraining yourself to eating regular meat dishes with the meat part subbed with tofu. For instance, most American food just does not treat vegetables fairly. In a lot of cases, the meat is the center of the dish while veggies, well, they are just served boiled as a side or raw as a salad. If you go vegan and take the meat out of the dish, you are basically left with bland vegetables. No wonder 'recidivism' rates are high. Now go to any Indian or Thai or (even Chinese in some cases) restaurant and see what they do with vegetables.