I gotta agree with the majority opinion here...
Believe it or don't, there are those like me that will need a "cookbook" the next (ie "first") time we try to make "tinned mushroom soup" over rice or noodles...(something I've never done!)
The "pro's" have their points...but I seriously doubt that many have to come "home" to the kitchen, and "whip up" a "professional dinner" for a family of 6 in 45 minutes or less, and thence by a Cub Master, chauffeur to children's activities, cleaner, hobbiest, or, generally a "parent", much less a "spouse"...and much like Bucky said, I've got my respect for the professionals, but dislike being "talked down" to...
Regrettably, when each person comes on to the List, we typically relate any number of "good" or "interesting" recipe's, and these get "buried" in the "back pages", accessible, but seldom "explored"...
And unlike the "TV Chef's" we don't use "impossible to access" or "hyper-expensive" ingredients...
And we get to "like" one another, too...weigh one thing against the other, and I believe "Discuss Cooking" has got it right...as witness the popularity, even where my screeners disable my ability to "vote" for the site!
Lifter