My local public TV station is driving me nuts!

[spindrifter]

KCTS has a well deserved reputation for doing outstanding cooking shows as part of their fund-raising. Viewers send in recipes and then they pick a bunch of them and invite the viewers to demonstrate the preparation. They are doing salads this time--oh, man. I may need to rush to the grocery store! Asian creamy noodle salad, broccoli salad, a Mediterranean fish salad. I may be eating healthy soon!

[Warpy]

1. I wish they'd do something like that here

but instead they get that fat guy with the beard and that utterly witless, obvious non cook of a woman, and they do midwestern type fare, supposedly home cooking, but never in MY home. Ugh.

I'd be a lot more inclined to keep contributing if they'd can the "special programming," which is always inferior fare, and either present specials like you described or just run their regular shows.

[spindrifter]

2. Oh--we have great cooking shows here--

it is the only thing that can lure me to watch the tube during the day on Saturdays. I have adopted quite a few of the things I've watched TV cooks prepare. America's Test Kitchen is one of my faves. I don't have cable, so only hear about the food shows there from my daughter.

[wryter2000]

3. I wish we had that here

We get the national shows, and I love them, but some local shows would be great. The SF bay area has some amazing food.