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One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
- Ted Allen
#Labor
#Mistakes
#People
#Sweat
#Trying
Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
- Ted Allen
#Favorite
#Oil
#Period
#Sesame
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.
- Ted Allen
#Bad
#Dinner
#Important
#Planning
#Way
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
#Funny
#Good
#Journalism
#Service
#Story
It's okay if you finish cooking something easy after your guests arrive - some dishes must be prepared a la minute, as chefs say. Just remember to keep talking.
- Ted Allen
#Be Prepared
#Cooking
#Easy
#Remember
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
- Ted Allen
#Food
#Great
#Irony
#Money
#People
It's a 12-hour cooking class for me on the set of 'Chopped.' You'd think I'd get sick of it, but it's a source of endless interest to me. The only thing I don't like about it is it's a long day and my feet hurt. Otherwise, I love it.
- Ted Allen
#Cooking
#Day
#Long
#Love
#Me
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
#Cooking
#Good
#Long
#Me
#Time
I'm really trying to respond to the foods that are in the stores and just pulling the things that are the very best and cook what looks beautiful and is seasonal. That's the way to go. I love going to the grocery store and the market. None of it's drudgery for me. Washing dishes is the drudgery.
- Ted Allen
#Beautiful
#Best
#Love
#Me
#Way
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
#Clothes
#Different
#Five
#Same
#Us
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.
- Ted Allen
#Feeling
#Ingredients
#Like
#More
#Pickle
I've always hoped 'Chopped' would telegraph our enormous affection and love and admiration for chefs and food, but at the same time, we are inflicting extraordinary cruelty on them.
- Ted Allen
#Affection
#Always
#Food
#Love
#Time
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
- Ted Allen
#Cake
#Dinner
#Me
#Never
#White
Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
- Ted Allen
#Change
#Day
#Every Day
#Every
#Food
#Who
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
#Better
#Family
#Fun
#Me
#Together
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
#Cooking
#Life
#Nothing
#People
#Way
For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.
- Ted Allen
#Discovery
#Ideas
#Kitchen
#Me
#New
A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
- Ted Allen
#Chance
#City
#Me
#New
#Winning
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
- Ted Allen
#Sound
#Thanksgiving
#Too Much
#Waiting
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
#Everyone
#Go
#Green
#Thanksgiving
#Things
#Trying
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
#Chef
#Cooking
#Food
#Home
#Love
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