The Fantastic World of Ted Allen: From Queer Eye to Chopped

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio

Milk Street Radio

Food, Arts

4.4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

We chat with Ted Allen about the soaring success of Queer Eye and Chopped, his life behind the scenes and embarrassing encounters with Martha Stewart. Plus, we explore the new German cooking with Meike Peters; Adam Gopnik discusses the role of turkey in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”; and we whip up an apple cake. (Originally aired December 20, 2019.)

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0:00.0	Hey, Milk Street listeners. As fall approaches, I've asked Stella Parks to help me answer your baking questions.
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0:24.8	Hi, this is Christopher Kimball.
0:26.8	Thanks for listening to Milk Street Radio.
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0:32.3	to get our recipes, to stream our television show,
0:34.8	or to get our latest cookbooks.
0:36.7	Here's this week's show.
0:43.0	This is Most Your Radio from PRX.
0:45.0	I'm your host, Christopher Kimball.
0:48.0	Today we're chatting with Ted Allen, who's the founding host of Choch, which premiered in 2009.
0:53.8	The formula is television gold.
0:56.2	Star-studded judges, near-impossible time constraints, and bizarre ingredient combinations.
1:02.4	Actually, the funny thing is that if we do give someone an easy basket with skirt steak
1:06.5	and a potato and some French butter, that's when they mess up.
1:10.4	I don't know what it is.
1:12.0	Chefs apparently need to be challenged with Doritos and Diet Pepsi in order to produce,
1:18.2	well, on our show. Also coming up, we share our recipe for German apple cake, and later
1:24.3	Adam Gopnik discusses the role of Turkey in Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
1:28.7	But first, it's my interview with Micah Peters, who splits her time between Berlin and Malta.
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