Ted Allen Quotes

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• Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

  Ted Allen

  Food, Two, Dishes

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

  Ted Allen

  Food, Expression, People

  “Things a Man Should Know About Entertainzing” by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.

  Ted Allen

  Expression, People, Generosity

  "Things a Man Should Know About Entertaining" by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

  Ted Allen

  Food, People, Meals

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• To me, the kitchen is a place of adventure and entirely fun, not drudgery. I can't think of anything better to do with family and friends than to be together to create something.

  Ted Allen

  Fun, Adventure, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

  Ted Allen

  And Love, Tables, Enthusiasm

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

  Ted Allen

  Thinking, People, Irony

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and to the idea of cooking as a mechanism for studying other cultures and understanding other parts of the world.

  Ted Allen

  Thinking, Ideas, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a home cook and love to read about food, but I'm not trained as a chef. I'm just really into cooking and passionate about it.

  Ted Allen

  Home, Cooking, And Love

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

  Ted Allen

  Kitchen, Use, Pot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

  Ted Allen

  Guy, Wanted

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

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  Home, Coming Home, Made

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  Ted Allen

  Nice, People, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cooking allows you to have travels, adventures and journeys without going anywhere. The running joke between my partner and me is that I'm not really concerned about how long it takes, or how much I destroy the kitchen, because I just have such a good time doing it.

  Ted Allen

  Running, Adventure, Journey

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

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  Humility, People, Preparation

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• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Asian, Noodles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is a form of service journalism. To be successful, I think it has to be a combination of a good story, it has to be funny, and it also needs to be packed with useful information.

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  Eye, Successful, Thinking

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

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  Home, Long, Chicago

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My place in Chicago is a 105 year old house, but I really like contemporary spaces too, so it's refreshing and fun to be in a space where you can do contemporary things.

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  Fun, Years, Space

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Planning a dinner party in a way that you're actually capable of getting it done without panicking is important. It's bad hospitality for the host to be freaked out.

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  Party, Important, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

  Ted Allen

  People, Shows, Streets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

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  Travel, Writing, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

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  Feelings, Intuition, Becoming

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal.

  Ted Allen

  Deals, Cookbook

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best way to learn is live, in person, cooking, feeling, smelling and tasting, but TV is the second-best thing to that; it's a halfway facsimile.

  Ted Allen

  Cooking, Feelings, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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