Ted Allen Food Quotations

I first got into food with my mother, just Southern cooking, really bad for you food (just delicious!) because I'm the first Yankee in my family, and everyone else was from the South.

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.

I love the trend in food and cocktails, with people working with natural foods and ingredients. You get such bright, fresh flavors.

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.

People want honest, flavourful food, not some show-off meal that takes days to prepare.

Two words to improve any dish. Ba, Con