Why it's best not to be too judgmental on food tastes

I shouldn't look down on the world's obsession with George Foreman grills – and the flavour they removed from food.

'There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book," wrote Oscar Wilde. "Books are well-written or badly written. That is all." I would never disagree that professional creative efforts were designed to be observed and critiqued. Every audition, opera, screenplay, ballet, sculpture and film is subject to aesthetic consideration and, ultimately, judgment. We accept the inevitability of this cycle as resolutely as we accept the certainty of common failure. Moral judgment, on the other hand, will land you in a hot mess. And when disguised as an authoritative judgment, it can be particularly sloppy.

Nouf Al-Qasimi is an Emirati food analyst who cooks and writes in New Mexico