Ted Allen Quotes
"For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Clothes)
"Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Food, Change, Day)
"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."
- Ted Allen
(Related: People, Being, professionals, World)
"In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Pretty)
"If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me."
- Ted Allen
"I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!"
- Ted Allen
(Related: Chicago, Investment)
"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
(Related: Chicago, Fun, Old, Space)
"I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Food, Saying)
"My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Favorite, Thanksgiving, Trying)
"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."
- Ted Allen
(Related: People, Humility, Learning, Respect)
"I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Friends, Kitchen)
"I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Time, America, Attention, Detail)
"I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Love, Cooking)
"I am much more interested in the process than results."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Results)
"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
(Related: Home, Time, Chicago)
"I'm in a loft and the kitchen is in the very center of the apartment. The whole place revolves around it."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Kitchen)
"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."
- Ted Allen
(Related: People, Guest, Party)
"You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Money, Food, People, Irony, Shame)
"What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Love, Enthusiasm)
"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
(Related: Money, People)
"Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets."
- Ted Allen
(Related: People, Popular)
"The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Job, Mystery)
"Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Favorite, Oil)
"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."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Funny, Successful, Eye, Information, Journalism, Needs, Service)
"Oh, did I tell you I have a cookbook? I have a cookbook deal."
- Ted Allen
"No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area."
- Ted Allen
(Related: Eye, Spring)