People walk on the red carpet before the 2016 James Beard Awards on Monday, May 2, 2016, in Chicago, Ill. (AP Photo/Matt Marton) Related Links Here are the James Beard Award winners for 2016 Last night, the James Beard Foundation handed out its annual restaurant awards in Chicago, which has occasioned the thinking of Thoughts both Big and Small all over the United States. What do this year’s awards say about dining in America? What do they say about the restaurant awards committee (disclosure: SF Chronicle critic, Michael Bauer is a member)? What do they say about us? Option 1: Searching within for the answers. Option 2: Ask the robots. San Francisco-based Quid used its language-analysis software
