The past was not that cute

> The food was extremely good. . . . everything was fresh from the garden.

Was it this, or was it that your mother/grandmother was a great cook? I hear a lot of older people talk about how awful their food was, limited ingredients, everything was boiled...

Food also probably tastes better when you're actually hungry, and not able to Doordash whatever you want to eat at any time of day.

Anecdotally vegetables I grow are wildly more flavorful than ones you can buy. Like think grape tomatoes as sweet as grapes. Green beans that a have complex flavor almost like green tea. The butternut squash that I accidentally grew this year from seeds that survived the winter in my compost tastes like a pumpkin pie. Corn that you can eat raw and that putting butter on feels like a waste.

That’s not to say you cannot get really good food that’s not “farm fresh” but food right out of the ground absolutely on average is better.