Quote by Ted Allen
The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up. – Ted Allen

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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame. – Ted Allen

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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and Ive been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. Its just something Im passionate about. – Ted Allen

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When I come home from a shoot, Id rather reheat food Ive made than eat takeout. – Ted Allen

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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving. – Charles Lamb, 1821

Give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. – Native American Saying

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. – Izaak Walton

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