Ted Allen

Ted Allen

Ted Allen (Edward Reese Allen) was born on May 20th, 1965 and is currently 60 years old. Ted Allen was born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. Allen attended Purdue University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and New York University where he received a Master of Arts degree in journalism.

Ted Allen is a television personality and author. He was wine and food connoisseur on the Bravo network’s TV show Queer Eye, and has hosted the TV competition show Chopped ever since it launched in 2009, along with Chopped Junior, which started in mid-2015.

Ted got his start in restaurant criticism as one-quarter of this bi-weekly group-review team known as “The Famished Four”, along with Barry Rice, who was then the chain’s entertainment editor, and initiated the concept with Leah A. Zeldes, Lerner food editor.

Then he became a freelancer for Chicago magazine, eventually signing on as senior editor and often writing pieces about wine, food, and luminaries of the culinary world.

He was with Bravo Network from 2003 until 2008, when the Food Network offered him the host job on Chopped and Food Detectives. Chopped really took off and has shot some 850 episodes.

He joined Esquirein 1997 as a contributing editor, writing food pieces, features, and profiles and was co-author of the magazine’s popular “Things a Man Should Know” series. He wrote for Esquire for over a decade and was nominated for a National Magazine Award for his story “This Man Survived Breast Cancer” in 2007.

Ted has also been a contributor to Food & Wine, GQ, Bon Appetit, and Epicurious.

The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes is a quick reference cookbook that gives you food you actually want to cook and eat, as well as the know how to pull it off with ease.

He gets right to the point right from the top. There’s no musings about Ted’s own philosophical musings on food before getting to the food you truly want to eat. It’s about the delicious, tempting, satisfying fare that you truly want to set down on your table, without any of the formalities and the fuss.

The chapters are divided into: The Cookout. Fulfilling everybody’s desires for excellent barbecued ribs, with Ted’s secret to the ultimate hamburger.

Happy Hour, which are the parties people actually want to throw, without any engraved invitations or seating charts, merely easy and yummy recipes like crostini.

I Know What You Want to Eat. The essentials on steak, chicken both roasted and fried, warm caramel brownie sundaes, and there’s a luscious mac n cheese which will have you thinking way outside of the box.

It’s the debut cookbook from one of the most entertaining and most engaging people ever to wield a spatula, filled with incredibly delicious and simple. In a word..mmmm.

Ted Allen: Awards & Accolades

Allen's book, Antoni in the Kitchen won the Goodreads Awards, Best Food and Cookbooks, in 2019.

Allen's book, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy was nominated for the Audie Award, Best Multi-Voiced Performance Award, in 2005.

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Ted Allen: F.A.Q