And take on the country’s most legendary eating challenges. I’m no competitive eater, just a regular guy with a serious appetite.
ADAM RICHMANI’ll go to a restaurant where I’ve never been before, and someone will say, “I don’t have anything big for you to eat.” I used to be a little salty about that, but at the end of the day
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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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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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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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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 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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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.
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I was never going to give my detractors the satisfaction of not feeling well, or allowing my health to falter while eating rich and indulgent food all over the world.
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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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I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps
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It’s the true story of a man stalking and plotting to kill the man who raped him when he was seven.
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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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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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Did you see The Never-Ending Story? That’s one kick-ass dragon. It’s basically a giant puppy dragon.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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I think that in terms of who is known the world over, I would wager that it’s probably someone like Mark Wahlberg or Dwyane Wade.
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A kid wrote to me through Facebook because they started a team in honor of their friend who died of leukemia, and he played in the band of this very obscure team in England.
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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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It’s 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.
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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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“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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Actually, I am loathe to admit, but I also remember freshman year of Emory – and I’m so sorry to have to admit this – but there was a Domino’s Pizza in Emory Village, where I went to college, and I was ordering a pizza.
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We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew.
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He heard the NPR show, contacted them, and essentially – shortest synopsis ever, like I’m the Cablevision guide button
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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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It’s not just the end of a chicken leg, it really is – imagine the cartilage of game meat.
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I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
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