Skip to main content

Too much Food Channel

While I could easily make that same claim for a number of other things, i.e. too much news channel, too much talk radio/TV, too much reality TV, even too much Golf Channel, I attribute the Food Channel to having a greater influence in changing my perception of food, than other programming has done in changing my perception of the world.

There was a time when I equated the quality of a restaurant only by the quantity of food received (the more the better) and the price (the lower the better). Seldom, if ever, did I give taste or presentation a passing thought.

But the Food Channel has changed that. No longer do I give quantity or price a high priority. Taste is the foremost requirement, with presentation being secondary.

It's also the biggest reason I dislike going out to eat so much anymore. Although high quality restaurants abound, it seems most neighbor restaurants are of the low quality variety, i.e. lacking flavor and presentation. So I would rather stay home, open up a good bottle of wine, and cook myself (or have Edie do the cooking).

And it was this past weekend that reminded me of that fact. We went to dinner at a Mediterranean [Greek] restaurant with friends, and based on my old criteria this would have been a top notch restaurant. Quantities were large, and prices were low, but by post Food Channel standards, this was just another mediocre restaurant at best.  (Compounding the problem was the bottle of wine I brought was foul, and I didn't bring a  back up.)

At least the company was good, which can make up for a lot of mediocre meals.

Or maybe I should just start reducing my intake of the Food Channel [or should I]?

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fatigue! Part II - Maybe it is real?

Or it's actually Motivational Deficiency Disorder, MoDeD (pronounced Mo-Dee-Dee) for short. In a report this week by Roy Moynihan who reports for the British Medical Journal Austrailian scientists may have come across the reason for extreme laziness . The condition is claimed to affect up to one in five Australians and is characterised by overwhelming and debilitating apathy. Neuroscientists at the University of Newcastle in Australia say that in severe cases motivational deficiency disorder can be fatal, because the condition reduces the motivation to breathe. Neurologist Leth Argos is part of the team that has identified the disorder, which can be diagnosed using a combination of positron emission tomography and low scores on a motivation rating scale, previously validated in elite athletes. "This disorder is poorly understood," Professor Argos told the BMJ. "It is underdiagnosed and undertreated." Who knew? Maybe I have MoDeD, from my attempts to become a...
Post a Comment
Read more

My concerns reaffirmed today

When I was first diagnosed with MCL, I pretty much read just about everything I could get my hands on, I attended various conferences, and I talked to anyone who would listen. One of the most important lessons I learned, and which I've mentioned numerous times before was No one cares more about you than you. But in addition to that, I learned to fear the drug Doxorubicin , AKA Adriamycin, Doxil, Hydroxydoxorubicin, or more affectionately the Red Devil. Besides being a deadly chemical, as is the case with most chemotherapy drugs, it is one of the few chemotherapy drugs known to cause permanent heart damage. I even heard Dr. Sandra Horning , a noted Stanford lymphoma specialist, state at the first lymphoma conference I attended in LA, there was no evidence Doxorubicin provided any added benefit to chemotherapy protocols. This was music to my ears, since Doxorubicin is very common in most lymphoma treatment protocols. And even though Dr. Horning has since changed her tune [which my sk...
Post a Comment
Read more

Tacitly condoning racism?

I learned something very discouraging in my current events class yesterday, there are a lot more racists and bigots out there then you may think. They may not admit it, or they'll claim otherwise, but when someone says they place the blame for what happened in Charlottesville on both sides, or better yet, they don't know where the blame lays, then they are condoning the action of the white supremacists groups, and in my book that is a racist/bigot. The truth is, there should be no doubt where blame for Charlottesville lays. It lays with the white supremacists, neo-Nazi's, KKK, etc, plain and simple! The hatred, bigotry, and misogyny displayed and espoused by these groups, coupled with the tacit approval of President Trump needs to be confronted at all cost, and history tells us so. If only the Jews, in pre-WWII Germany, had confronted the Nazi's in the same manner, Hitler might never have risen to power, and we would not be looking at the prospect of a  third anti...
Post a Comment
Read more