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Ted Allen is the food and wine specialist on the Emmy Award-winning NBC/Bravo hit "Queer Eye," where he helps guests and viewers sharpen their cooking and entertaining skills. He also is author of "The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes" (Clarkson-Potter), a cookbook for beginners that features easy, all-natural recipes for everything from steak to cocktails, and appears frequently as a judge on Food Network's "Iron Chef America" and Bravo’s “Top Chef.”

Along with his castmates, Ted 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 also serves as the spokesman for Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines. In that capacity, he shares his experience and advice about food, wine and entertaining with visitors to discover-wine.com.

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 regularly for such publications as Bon Appétit and Epicurious.com. 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 and a B.A. in psychology from Purdue University. He lives in New York with his longtime partner, Barry Rice.