Hi everyone, it’s Ted Bell. As many of you know it was a rough 2025 for me and truth be told a rough 2024 before that. On a recent show, my good friend and business partner Chef Carl Chodillia commented that I’d “been pissing (him) off for a long time.” To continue he said I’d “had my nostrils pulled open and had it shoved up into my nostrils and I was forced to inhale.“ All true, and therefore it is a relief to look up from the, if you will, manure pile, and see a new year “in the bowl” as my dear grandmother would call it. It was an okay Valen-Ted’s..that’s right….a great Ted-ster. A great Ted of July, and somewhere down the road a return to..that’s right…the hot buttered Ted, where no one thinks of me as being strapped to something and oiled up, I’m sorry to be graphic. Things have gotta get better and I know they will to a great 2025 y’all. I’m Ted Bell! That’s all I have to say I’m just Ted Bell.
