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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]?

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