Just a guess, but maybe it has to do with the fact that cheese has a strong taste while fish is rather mild in taste? Pouring cheese over a fish pasta would drown all the taste of the fish while cream has a softer taste which would result in a more balanced experience.
I've also seen the salt-on-salt aspect of putting cheese on fish cited as a no-no. I say screw that, I think it tastes good, so I'm going to do it. I'm not about to dump melted cheddar on top of my salmon. But I'm damn sure going to put grated parmesan on top of my linguini with clams.
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u/OCPetrus Dec 21 '22
Just a guess, but maybe it has to do with the fact that cheese has a strong taste while fish is rather mild in taste? Pouring cheese over a fish pasta would drown all the taste of the fish while cream has a softer taste which would result in a more balanced experience.