Fancy, like banana puddin’ kind of fancy? :)
I like Banana Pudding, and Banana Cream Pie.
“Fancy” is just in the presentation.
When I first became intimate with an Asian family, and was learning to love their food, I had a hard time getting my mind around the whole idea of Chopsticks.
I wondered why such an ancient and intelligent culture - which could certainly invent spoons and forks - would choose to eat this way.
I decided that it had to do with a certain aesthetic about food (and I have nothing in science or anthropology to back this up - it’s just an opinion.)
Using chopsticks forces one to savor and, if you will, ‘honor’ food. I think it stems from the same civilized impulse that created our European development of elaborate table settings - a fork or spoon for every course, the notion of ‘courses’ itself, etc.
It’s just a FANCY thing to do, to celebrate FOOD, and LIFE :-) And we make ‘fancy food’ occasionally, for the same reason: Celebration.
Will you post your Banana Pudding recipe?
-JT