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Fire Up the Grill with Celebrity Chef Ted Reader & Company!
Join hosts Nancy & Lisa (BigBlendMagazine.com Editors) and guest host Maralyn Hill – co-author of ‘Our Love Affairs with Food & Travel’ and ‘Cooking Secrets – The Why and How’, as they get ready for summer and fire up the grill with Canadian Celebrity Chef Ted Reader dubbed “crazy Canuck barbecue kingpin” by GQ magazine; Chef Jeff Clock from Stockman’s Grill in Southern Arizona; and Chris Perrin ‘The Party Food Dude.’ Learn about what wines to serve at a BBQ party with Joe O’Keefe - ‘The Wine 101 Guy’, and Tracy Ellen Kamens Ed.D., DWS, CWE - Chief Education Officer of Grand Cru Classes.

Show airs Live on Monday, May 11 at 3pm PDT - Listen live at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Merry/2009/05/11/BBQ-Burgers-Wine

Celebrity Chef Ted Reader is an award-winning chef and food entertainer, who’s parlayed his passion for food into a culinary tour de force that includes more than a dozen cook books, shelves of food products, live culinary performances, TV and radio cooking shows and appearances as well as culinary demonstrations, a catering company and teaching.   Known for his wild hair, pyrotechnic charm and fearless culinary spirit, it’s no surprise that GQ magazine labeled him the “crazy Canuck barbecue kingpin.” The dude just loves to cook!

Ted is probably best known for his former TV show, King of the Q, which aired for three seasons on CTV. But his TV career didn’t stop there. Ted has appeared for five seasons on Fishing the Flats, which aired on OLN, TSN and FOX.  He also appeared for two seasons on PBS’s Grilling Maestros and for nine years appeared as the grill chef on the series Cottage Country. Ted makes regular guest appearances on CTV’s Canada AM, Good Morning Canada and he has appeared several times on Live! With Regis and Kelly in addition to many other television appearances. He is often heard spicing up radio on Toronto’s AM 640 Talk Radio and on Q107 with host John Derringer and the Q107 Tour of the Neighborhood.

For five years, Ted was the Executive Chef at President’s Choice, where he developed over 250 products such as PC Real Jerk Wings and PC Thick and Cheesy Burgers. Ted has his own product development consulting company and has developed products for Heinz, E.D. Smith and Tony Roma’s Restaurants.  Ted has also developed the recipes in the Dave Nichol Cookbook and the PC Barbecue Cookbook. Ted has also been spokesperson for Maille Mustard, McCain, Napoleon Appliance Corporation and Playtex/Wet Ones.

In Ted ‘s 25-year career as a chef he’s earned numerous awards, including Best Sauce 2005 in which he captured a Gold with his King of the Q Pineapple Rum Sauce.  One of Ted’s President’s Choice products “If Chickens Could Fly” earned the Sial D’Or Award for Best New Product in Paris, France. In 2000, he was honored with a prize for his Sticks and Stones Cookbook by the Cuisine Canada Cookbook.

Read more about our Guests at http://www.bigblendmagazine.com/Eat-Drink-Be-Merry/May11-09