I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, “He knows where the good food is,” which is an awesome correlative. It’s an awesome simplification.
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People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
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I said “I’ve had pho,” and then he goes, “Oh, what do you get, the number one big bowl?” I was like, “Come on, man
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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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My mom always says, “Pack your smile,” but [the sound guy] articulated it beautifully, because he saw me go from Joe Schmo who had been on food stamps to Adam Richman from Man V. Food.
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They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.
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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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I’m Adam Richman. A food fanatic who’s held nearly every job in the restaurant biz.
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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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In 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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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say,
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I think in the U.K. people perhaps know me for some other stuff because of my involvement with soccer and support of Tottenham.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before.
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People follow me on social media, and they can tell I have varied interests.
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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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