When Jane Grigson did her delightful last series Slow Down, Fast Food, we photographed a gigantic hamburger with an implausible bite taken out of it, our tasteful riposte to the cigarette-stubbed-out-in-the-fried-egg school of lurid food photography.
In the 90s, we would have described this nice but perhaps overly tasteful record as "very coffee table".
I was just quoting a song, but I was ignorant of the power of that word, that it would upset so many people Touitou's "search for beauty" has led APC to stand for a particular type of tasteful cool – something hard to define ("there is a vibe there that isn't said, but it's in the air," is all he will say).
Tasteful and traditional was the mood, the hush of lobbies in discreet uptown hotels.
In 1937 Vogue wrote: "Just the basics are enough, when tasteful, to make even the most banal room personal.
The offending article showed Hanson-Young's face Photoshopped on to a woman in a bikini, claiming with an arched brow it would "house the next boatload of asylum seekers in the Zoo office" if the Greens' immigration spokeswoman would agree to a "tasteful" swimsuit or lingerie shoot.
8km from Zambujeira beach Tucked away up a dirt track on the outskirts of tiny Malavado, Casa da Diná is a four-room B&B run by Dina and her husband Walter, a painter whose works decorate their tasteful home.
Behind high fortress walls, again built from pisé, lie an outdoor pool, lush gardens, a restaurant and 15 tasteful rooms set around two courtyards.
The rather more tasteful English vision: "The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder", without whom the aspiration to class and wealth simply couldn't be triggered.
So they will remain online, except in the Daily Star, except in a hundred magazines and a thousand "tasteful" fashion shoots.
Aim To showcase encaustic tiles and play with colour to create a timeless, tasteful kitchen.
