Ted Allen
Food and Wine Ambassador for Discover Wine with Robert Mondavi 

Emmy Award-winner Ted Allen is one of America’s favorite food and wine experts. Host of “Food Detectives” and “Chopped,” two new primetime series on the Food Network, he has also been 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 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, seasonal recipes. 

Ted serves as the Food and Wine Ambassador for Robert Mondavi Private Selection wines, offering advice related to these popular wines, including how best to pair them with food.  

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. He is a regular contributor 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 lives in New York City.