“People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.” PeopleWholeCulinaryFlewAcumen Author:Adam Richman
“I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps - 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," it was like, who's life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.” ThinkingGivingYearsCountryMomentsKidsLife IsNiceGiving UpResearchPaidWineExpensesContractsBowlsTicketsUnemploymentStampsSplendidSurrealNice ThingsSuper BowlArgentinaAnother YearFood StampsSurreal Moments Author:Adam Richman
“We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. 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.” TryingTwoHoursCitiesNiceRight NowTreatedAfternoonCrewMidnightDaylightCruiseGreenland Author:Adam Richman
“That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. 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.” MadeUsedOpportunityWaterIncrediblesDecadesIceStayingHikingSurrealCocktailsCubesIcebergGreenland Author: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.” LooksKindStuffPopsPacksSensibilityFloatingAndrewBratGrunge Author:Adam Richman
“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.” ThinkingRedHotAddictionJanePeppersRed HotChiliChili PeppersRed Hot Chili Peppers Author: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.” IfsLooksBoysFansMinutesStyleChecksMassiveAesthetic Author:Adam Richman
“I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.” GivingBookSometimesStepsMomDadGardenSickMy DadBlowEightJapanPacksSheetsBrooklynDemosOrigamiEpcot Author:Adam Richman
“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.” YearsRememberCollegeSorryVillagePizzaLoatheFreshmanFreshman YearI'm So Sorry Author:Adam Richman
“There are soccer athletes that are known the world over except in the U.S. Thierry Henry, for example.” WorldKnownExampleAthleteSoccer Author:Adam Richman