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Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of the hit prime-time competition series Chopped (2007) on the Food Network, and a frequent contributor to Food Network's The Best Thing I Ever Ate (2009). He was a judge on the first four seasons of Bravo's Top Chef (2006) and Food Network's Iron Chef America: The Series (2004) and was the food and wine specialist on the groundbreaking Bravo series Queer Eye (2003). He is the author of "The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes" (Clarkson-Potter), a collection of vibrant, all-natural dishes, and will publish a second cookbook for Clarkson in spring 2012. He 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".

Since 1997, Ted has been a contributing editor to Esquire magazine, where he writes about food, wine, style and everything else the American man needs to know. He was a finalist for a National Magazine Award for his Esquire feature on the little-known phenomenon of male breast cancer. Ted also writes for such publications as Bon Appetit, Epicurious and Food Network Magazine. Before joining Esquire, Ted was a senior editor and restaurant critic at Chicago magazine. Ted holds an M.A. in journalism from New York University, with an advanced certificate in the school's Science and Environmental Reporting Program, and a B.A. in psychology from Purdue University. He lives in Brooklyn with his longtime partner, Barry Rice.

TV commercial for American Express Business credit card (with the other QE4SG guys and producer <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0172257/?ref_=nmwrk">David Collins</a>) (April 2004).

(October 2005) Release of his book, &quot;The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes&quot; by Ted with Stephanie Lyness.

(2004) Release of his book, &quot;Queer Eye for the Straight Guy: The Fab 5&#39;s Guide to Looking Better, Cooking Better, Dressing Better, Behaving Better and Living Better&quot;.

(2001) Release of his book, &quot;Esquire&#39;s Things a Man Should Know About Sex&quot; by Ted with Scott Omelianuk.

(2012) TV commercial for Buick &quot;Verana&quot;.

(2012) Release of his cookbook, &quot;In My Kitchen: 100 Recipes for Food Lovers, Passionate Cooks and Enthusiastic Eaters&quot;, by Ted with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm3734449/?ref_=nmwrk">Barry Rice</a>.

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