So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
ADAM RICHMANIn the early ’90s I was floating somewhere between the Brat Pack/Andrew McCarthy/James Spader/Pretty In Pink kind of stuff and the alterna-pop look, crossed with a very distinct grunge sensibility.
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I produced a play in New York that got nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best American Play.
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I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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When Lollapalooza started, and I was really into Red Hot Chili Peppers and Jane’s Addiction, Soundgarden. I went to that Lollapalooza tour twice, I think.
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What they’re saying is, “I know who you are. I watch your stuff.” What’s better than that? Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing. What am I being pissy about?
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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
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I’ve always been a massive Beastie Boys fan, so if you look at their style aesthetic on Check Your Head, that was the headspace I was in for a minute. Whatever that was, that was me.
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I’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,”
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To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity].
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Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand.
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I sponsor two soccer teams in England, one of which is called Broadley F.C.
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I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
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. You don’t have to come at me like that.” But yeah, I’ve tried tendon. Tendon eventually yields.
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My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book.
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We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
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He said, “For you, it may be your 50th or 100th selfie, autograph, or whatever of the day. But for that person, it may be the first or the only time in their life that they’ve seen someone they enjoy on television. Never lose sight of that.”
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I lived in San Jose for a little bit, and one of my neighbors was Vietnamese and was teasing me.
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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.
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You can change your spouse, your friends but never your club.
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Man V. Food is the highest-rated show in the Travel Channel’s history, so clearly there’s going to be a correlation.
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Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It’s surreal.
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“Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
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It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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The play is called Stalking The Bogeyman. It was a story on This American Life, and my former roommate is the artistic director of the New York Repertory Theater.
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