Recipe websites that aren't unusable, ad-filled, corporate shitholes -

[Old Wizard]

I think that most recipe authors who have storytime walls of text are home-cook types. Professional chefs are less likely to have these kinds of stories. A few suggestions:

Culinary youtubers (both the youtube channels of professional chefs and recipe authors)- typically have websites that accompany videos, posted in the description

• Binging with Babish
• Joshua Weissman (ex-chef)
• Kenji Alt-Lopez (cookbook author)
• Individuals who work at larger orgs like Bon Appetite, NYT
• That guy who was on Masterchef

Magazines/Cooking Sections (food scientists and recipe authors, downside is the paywall)

• NYT cooking (free trial, iirc no credit card req)
• America's Test Kitchen (expensive, hard to get around paywall)
• Bon Appetit (free)
• Cookbook authors will sometimes upload tutorials onto youtube, which is a great way to bypass online recipe paywalls/having to buy the book- Claire Saffitz has an online series for Dessert Person

I sometimes take photos of recipes in recipe books/food magazines in-store and then put the book back and leave. I also get a free subscription to NYT, print out/screenshot the recipes with the highest rating (as many as I can), then let the subscription run out.
Some old-timey chefs also still have TV shows.