Best quotes by Ted Allen on Food

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• ‟ Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.

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• ‟ Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

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• ‟ I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.

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• ‟ You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.

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• ‟ When I come home from a shoot, I'd rather reheat food I've made than eat takeout.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ In recent years, I've been writing because I'm fortunate enough to work in the world of food television, to travel and taste and learn about cooking from the best chefs in the business.

  - Ted Allen