Ted Allen
Ted Allen was born in Columbus, Ohio, United States on May 20th, 1965 and is the TV Show Host. At the age of 58, Ted Allen biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Edward Allen (born May 20, 1965) is an American author and television personality.
He was the food and wine connoisseur on the Bravo network's television program Queer Eye, and has been the host of the TV cooking competition series Chopped since its launch in 2009, as well as Chopped Junior, which began in mid-2015.
On April 13, 2014, he became the host of another Food Network show, originally called America's Best Cook; a retooled version of that show, retitled All-Star Academy, which debuted on March 1, 2015.
In early 2015, he also hosted a four-part special, Best.
Ever., which scoured America for its best burgers, pizza, breakfast, and barbecue.
He is a longtime contributing writer to Esquire magazine, the author of two cookbooks, and regularly appears on the Food Network show The Best Thing I Ever Ate and other television cooking shows.
Personal life
Allen became engaged to Barry Rice in 2013, after being together for 20 years. They married the same year.
Career
Allen graduated from Carmel, Indiana, in 1983, and was inducted into the school's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2011. In 1987, he received a degree in psychology from Purdue University. He attended Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management but left to work as a copy editor at the Lafayette, Indiana, Journal & Courier.
He went back to graduate school and earned an MA in journalism from the Science and Environmental Reporting Program at New York University. He then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a reporter for Lerner Newspapers, a chain of community weekly newspapers. He got his start in restaurant critique as part of a bi-weekly group review group called "The Famished Four," alongside Barry Rice, then the chain's entertainment editor (and now Allen's husband), who introduced the idea with Lerner food editor Leah A. Zeldes.
Allen began working as a freelance writer for Chicago magazine before going on as a senior editor and often writing about food, wine, and culinary luminaries of the culinary world. He joined Esquire in 1997 as a contributing editor, wrote articles, food pieces, and profiles, and co-authored the magazine's popular "Things a Man Should Know" column. He has also written for GQ, Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, and Epicurious.
Allen made a name for himself in 2003 when he became a cast member of the television makeover show Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, where he served as the city's food and wine expert. He continued to appear on television as a gourmet, including as a regular guest judge on Food Network's Iron Chef America. On PBS, Allen hosted Uncorked: Wine Made Simple beginning on May 7, 2007. Allen appeared on seasons 3 and 4 of Bravo's reality television show Top Chef beginning in June 13, 2007, after several guest judge appearances during the previous two seasons. When Food Network offered him the host position on two shows: Food Detectives, which premiered on July 29, 2008, and Chopped, which premiered on January 13, 2009, he left Bravo. The shows "Detectives" returned for a second season of 13 episodes, as well as in January 2009. In March 2009 in New York, "Chopped" was renewed for 26 episodes and went back to production. The show attracted a following, with a new 33 episodes being shot in January and February 2010. Chopped has shot some 850 episodes on the network as of May, 2022, and "Chopped Junior" has shot 100.
Allen said in a Food Network interview about his favorite moments on Chopped, "I love the food but not so much because it makes when it plops out of the can."
Allen has appeared on several of the channel's shows, including Beat Bobby Flay, Best Ever, Cutthroat Kitchen, and The Next Food Network Star, since being moved to the Food Network. Allen returned to Iron Chef America as a co-floor reporter for the show's Thanksgiving special on November 16, 2008. Allen took over as co-floor reporter on the Thanksgiving special on November 20, 2011. Allen appeared as a sous chef to Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto and chef Robert Irvine in a special "Holiday Battle" pitting the Food Network stars against reps of the sister network Cooking Channel, Ben Sergeant, Nadia G, and Michael Symon. Morimoto's crew triumphed.