Ted Allen on Chopped (and Queer Eye) Secrets

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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(Ep 19) Who knew helping clueless dudes learn a thing or two about food and wine would pave the way for this now Emmy-award-winning host, writer, and cookbook author? On the latest episode of The Eater Upsell, Chopped and Chopped Junior host Ted Allen dishes on how that little Bravo pilot project paved the way to his career as referee for one of primetime’s most challenging cooking competitions — and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Greg here, just a tiny announcement before we get started.
0:03.7	It really helps the show if you hit subscribe or rate us on iTunes or Spotify.
0:08.8	Also new for season two, we would love for you to email us at Uppsel at eater.com with questions you have for us or comments about the show,
0:17.7	suggestions of how we can make the upsell better or just info about your personal life. You can ask us literally anything and
0:24.7	who knows we might even answer it on the show. You are listening to the Eder Uppsel, the Food Podcast of Food
0:37.0	website eater.com hosted by yours truly. I'm Greg Moribito the editor of theater and why and I'm Helen
0:45.0	Rosner the executive editor of Peter Helen who do we have on the show today we have
0:49.3	the handsome talented and extraordinarily intelligent Ted Allen.
0:52.6	Ted Allen, the face heart and brain of chopped.
0:57.6	Oh, I love Ted Allen.
0:59.4	He's America's Dream Dinner Party guest.
1:02.4	And speaking of Dinner Parties, Craig, I know you don't really like to throw them.
1:10.0	I like to cook, but I don't host dinner parties.
1:12.0	I don't know how to like put together that menu or anything like that. Like I don't think I've ever actually done it.
1:18.2	Entertained. You don't entertain. I've entertained as in, hey, what do you want want a beer here have a seat sit in the good part of the couch that doesn't have the stains on it
1:27.7	so giving I try I want to make friends you see I like to cook one thing, like one here's your bowl of something that I made and I like to cook a lot actually in that kind of capacity and I had some friends, you know, I was mentioning one time I was like, okay, the food's going to be a little bit.
1:44.6	She was like, Greg, I know you're going to serve it at like 11.
1:47.4	I'm just expect, I just know that you can't possibly finish cooking anything before like 1030 and she was right.
1:53.4	You say you're doing it like Madrid style right?
1:54.9	Like of course we don't eat dinner until 11 what are you a savage?
1:58.8	Like yes this is this is the time like we're gonna spend three hours
2:02.6	like picking at olives and getting totally fucked up on white wine.
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