Why can't food media escape the listicle?

The perils and pleasures of list making

The first listicle was invented somewhere on the Sinai peninsula around 1300 BCE, but it wasn’t until two millennia later that the form was perfected, in the panelled house of intrigue that was the Imperial Court of Kyoto where Sei Shonogan wrote her book of lists called Makura no Soshi ─ better known in English as The Pillow Book. If you haven’t read T…