I'm not sure that's a real excuse for a cooking site to look like that, even if it were in beta. But I accept, perhaps the people who run the site didn't have

I'm not sure that's a real excuse for a cooking site to look like that, even if it were in beta. But I accept, perhaps the people who run the site didn't have time (or money) and just applied the default templates, and tried running it to see whether it will work.