Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Shops Solis - Ted Allen

Ted Allen From Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Shops Solis

Ted We Love You!



Ted Allen From Queer Eye For The Straight Guy Shops Solis

Ted We Love You!

Ted - Food and Wine Conoisseur

It was the incident at Boy Scout camp that sealed forever the sense of culinary purpose that informs Ted Allen's life and work today. There he was, encamped with hundreds of boys in a Midwestern cornfield, hours from the nearest organic market, when some uncouth Tenderfoot left a can of cooking spray too close to the fire. The barbeque tragedy that ensued nearly took out Troop 199. Worse, the blast rendered Ted's exquisite Western Scramble completely inedible with rancid, oily fallout.

Thus the young Ted found a new, urgent challenge: share some culinary knowledge with his contemporaries before somebody gets killed, or at minimum, nauseated. Today, he combs the world with his longtime partner, Barry Rice, in their never-ending quest for the perfect roast chicken.

A Chicago native, Ted has been a contributing editor to Esquire magazine where he is co-author of the "Things a Man Should Know" column-an irreverent guide for men on such items as fashion, sex, business etiquette, and cocktails, and co-authored four books that grew out of that series. Before joining Esquire Ted was a senior editor and restaurant critic with Chicago magazine where he wrote stories for the dining department. He has interviewed such food luminaries as Mario Batali, Martha Stewart, Paul Bocuse, Trotter, Rick Tramonto, Gale Gand, and Rick Bayless.

Date of birth (location)
20 May 1965
Carmel, Indiana, USA

Himself - filmography

"Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters" (2004) (mini) TV Series .... Judge (Fruits de Mer Battle)

VH1 Big in 03 (2003) (TV) .... Himself

MTV Video Music Awards 2003 (2003) (TV) .... Himself

"Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" (2003) TV Series .... Himself (Food & Wine)

Notable TV Guest Appearances

"The View" playing "Himself" 21 November 2005

"Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" playing "Himself" (as The Fab Five) 1 August 2005

"TV Land's Top Ten" playing "Himself" in episode: "Sexiest Men" (episode # 1.10) 15 June 2005

"The Tony Danza Show" playing "Himself" (as The Fab Five) (episode # 1.78) 11 January 2005

"Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" playing "Himself" 23 February 2004

"Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" playing "Himself" 17 February 2004

"The Apprentice" playing "Himself" in episode: "Tit for Tat" (episode # 1.6) 12 February 2004

"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" playing "Himself" 21 November 2003

"Good Morning, Miami" playing "Himself" in episode: "Good Morning,

Manhattan" (episode # 2.2) 7 October 2003

"The Oprah Winfrey Show" playing "Himself" 22 September 2003

"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" playing "Himself" 15 August 2003

"The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" playing "Himself" 14 August 2003

"Howard Stern" playing "Himself" 11 August 2003