Ted Allen

Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is a judge on Bravo’s “Top Chef” and Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” and is host of the PBS series “Uncorked: Wine Made Simple.” Ted was the food and wine specialist on the groundbreaking, Emmy-winning Bravo series “Queer Eye,” which recently wrapped its 100-episode run. He is author of “The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes” (Clarkson-Potter), a cookbook that features easy, all-natural recipes, and also co-wrote the New York Times Best Seller “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab Five’s Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better, and Living Better.” Ted holds an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.A. in psychology from Purdue University. He lives in New York with his longtime partner, Barry Rice.

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