Ted AllenSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

The Best Thing I Ever Ate, the ultimate guide to the nation's most amazing meals, eats, and treats as told by food stars and chefs who spend their lives obsessing over food, also features frequent contributions from Allen. These contributions range from canolli so delicious that it completely healed a bad breakup.

He 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, and served as a judge on the first four seasons of Bravo's Top Chef and Food Network's Iron Chef America.

He is the author of The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes, a collection of vibrant, all-natural dishes. Allen has been a contributing editor to Esquire magazine since 1997. There, he writes on cuisine, wine, style, and other topics pertinent to American men.

For his Esquire article on the little-known occurrence of male breast cancer, he made it to the finals of the National Magazine Awards. He also contributes to websites like Epicurious.com and Bon Appétit. Before joining Esquire, Ted was a senior editor and food reviewer at Chicago magazine. His book is in My Kitchen: 100 Recipes and Discoveries for Passionate Cooks.