Ted Allen quotes

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.

A friend of a friend has an aunty who lives in southern Illinois, she's in her 60's, and it's totally conservative middle-America. She has a group of ladies her age that get together every Tuesday to watch Queer Eye.

Baking is problematic for me because I usually drink a lot of wine when I cook!

Because the show is popular, people do recognize us on the streets.

But, probably my favorite food interview was with Mario Batali, because I have never met anybody who was more instantly media savvy and more helpful than he was.

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.

However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

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 had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

I know that the single guys on the cast (which is everybody but me), hmm, well a lot more people flirt with you when you're on TV.

I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

I mean I want people to enjoy their dinner, but I just love the process so much.

I moved into a larger apartment in the Village and I actually have the possibility of having people over for dinner again, so I'm very excited.