In France, back in the day, the King was served entire meals at once, which would sit there cooling off while spectators gawked from the gallery. It was one th

In France, back in the day, the King was served entire meals at once, which would sit there cooling off while spectators gawked from the gallery. It was one thing if you could afford to eat great cuisine, but if you could afford to let it go to waste, that showed real power. That kind of thing inspired the democracy movement. So, in the long term, it is simply not possible for serious cuisine to grow more detached from eating than it has been.