KQED, Dirty Spoons and Thirsty Girls
Harvest season is fast approaching and that gives me license to talk about food and drink for the next several posts. Gastronomy is our go-to conversational topic in the Bay Area just like baseball is in Boston. In terms of personal diets, the San Franciscans I've met generally fall into two camps. The first smaller camp is the one where members dare not touch certain foods or edible constituents, i.e. maintaining diets that are sugar-free, vegan, meat-and-eggs-free or free from packaging. The second camp is much larger and more celebratory. These happy campers declare at every opportunity how foods at certain restaurants are "So Good!" and need to be lauded, or, at the very least, deliberated. No show captures the "So Good!" foodie zeitgeist than Check, Please! Bay Area . We watch it on domestic Friday nights at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 9, KQED, the Bay Area's PBS station. The premise: three guests who are local diners (not professional food critic