I have been watching the genius of food styling on TV for about a year. Every time I see one of those beautiful meals with shrimp, sizzling beef, squeezed lemons and steaming vegetables I get hungry.
Foolish as I am, I have tried three of these national sit-down
restaurant chains. First a disclaimer. I live in San Francisco where
even the lowliest diner has four kinds of lettuce in the salad, rarely
serves fried dishes of any sort and tends to grill most food especially
vegetables.
In each case in the national TV restaurant chain the food was poor (I won't mention the names because one of them may be the only restaurant in town for some of my readers). The meat was tenderized and still flavorless, fish was fried, the veggies were steamed and over cooked, the salad was iceberg with Safeway dressing. The service was just: I'm Shirley, I'll be your waitress today...and five visits from an unknown host interrupting 'Is everything fine, sir?' The waitress had ten buttons on her blouse promoting god-knows-what. The table was cluttered with special drink promos.
Those brilliant food styling shots have misled me badly. Deceptive, if I have a vote.
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