People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing.
ADAM RICHMANHe heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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I love that team, I wear their symbol around my neck on a chain – I’ve always had a soft spot for this little club.
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If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.
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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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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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There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.
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And take on the country’s most legendary eating challenges. I’m no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
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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 have a master’s from Yale drama, and I auditioned for this.
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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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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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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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So obviously I want to be in the limelight in some capacity, or I want to be in entertainment in some capacity.
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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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“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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This is my ultimate hunger quest. This is Man v. Food.
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