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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I wo

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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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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Thanksgiving Day
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman, but on Thanksgiving youre putting on a show! – Ted Allen

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I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. Its sort of a teaching job. – Ted Allen

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Dont you stay at home of evenings? Dont you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Its a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of Late Home Tonight, where theres Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader. – Roger Waters

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At home, you always have to be a politician when youre abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman. – Harold MacMillan

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