Food and Wine Ambassador for Discover Wines with Robert Mondavi
Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of "Food Detectives," a new primetime series on the Food Network. He's been a judge on every season of 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 had a 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.
Ted serves as Food and Wine Ambassador for the for Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines, offering his expertise on pairing wine with food. He also acts as an online guide for visitors to the Discover Wine with Robert Mondavi website that's packed with fun, accessible information on entertaining with wine. He shares his experience and advice about food, wine and entertaining in a role in which he has dubbed himself "The Website Concierge."
Ted has been a contributing editor at Esquire magazine since 1997, writing about food, wine, style and everything else the American male needs to know. Ted also regularly contributes to Bon Appétit and Epicurious.com. Before joining Esquire, Ted was a senior editor and restaurant critic at Chicago magazine. He has also authored several books, including The New York Times best-seller, "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and the series "Things a Man Should Know."
Ted is originally from Columbus, Ohio. He holds an M.A. in Journalism from New York University, a certificate from the university's Science and Environmental Reporting Program and a B.A. in psychology from Purdue University, which bestowed upon him a Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2004. Ted currently resides in New York City.
