Ted Allen Quotes

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Adventure Cooking Food Home House Thanksgiving

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kitchen, Use, Pot

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

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

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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.

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Nice, People, Way

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

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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.

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Fundraising, People, Important

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

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Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it,
just loves it.
He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party.

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Party, People, Guests

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Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.

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Gambling, Casinos, Cocktails

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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.

Ted Allen

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.

Ted Allen

Fun, Years, Space

"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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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.

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Cooking, Feelings, Way

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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The world is full of people who would like nothing better than to spend six hours on a golf course. I would rather be chopping shallots.

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Golf, People, World

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.

Ted Allen

Travel, Writing, Years

"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

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I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it.

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Kitchen, Apartment, Whole

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

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