If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
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If I ever took the spare tire off of my car and was on a survival show, and Bear Grylls was like, “What you need to do in a survival situation is eat your tire,” I’d be like, “That’s moose nose!”
ADAM RICHMAN
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.
ADAM RICHMAN
It was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.
ADAM RICHMAN
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.
ADAM RICHMAN
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.
ADAM RICHMAN
We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
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They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.
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The first one that I went to with my friends was with my buddy Michael – and we actually cut class to get tickets – was INXS at the Garden.
ADAM RICHMAN
I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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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.”
ADAM RICHMAN
Gratitude is the attitude. That’s the thing.
ADAM RICHMAN
If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I’d be golden.
ADAM RICHMAN
“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.
ADAM RICHMAN
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,
ADAM RICHMAN
I thought maybe I would be everyone’s favorite dude-food friend.
ADAM RICHMAN
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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