"Nuanced" is another overused word in food writing and in general.
This, I think, is a pick-up from the academic world where it has been over-used for years. Google "nuanced approach" to get an idea of how it has infiltrated just about every aspect of our intellectual lives, from politics to foreign affairs to crime control and on and on and on.
"The fork with two prongs is in use in northern Europe. In England, they’re armed with a steel trident, a fork with three prongs. In France we have a fork with four prongs; it’s the height of civilization." Eugene Briffault (1846)