
Foodies may hold up their nose to Ray's simplified methods — cans! frozen goods! a repellent hot dog here and there — but even Ray has admitted, ''I'm not a chef, I just cook.'' Chalk up Ray's mass appeal to knowing how real people shop and eat. Astonishingly productive, Ray has wrung her practical lifestyle into a full-on brand: three programs — her trademark meal-in-half-an-hour cooking show, the $40 a day travel guide, and a syndicated daily talk show — a lucrative cookbook series, and a magazine lay the foundation to the giggly 39-year-old's burgeoning empire. She's even coined a new term: ''EVOO'' (that's extra virgin olive oil, if you've been living under a rock) was officially inducted into Oxford American English College dictionary in 2006.
Photo from Every Day with Rachael Ray.
Name the cooking expert...Giada...
ReplyDeleteTyler...Paula Deen...I've seen them and more use pre-packaged foods in their recipes(I've even watched GDL use a garbage bowl, a RR tradition). So it's no crime, and a great relief to know a home cook can get away with it.
i love Rachael. i really think she is a role model for girls.
ReplyDeleteRachael has a winning personality, and I think that is the real secret to her success. I've followed her since her inception on The Food Network, and have seen her do one great thing after the other. I can't believe she's turning 40 this year! She certainly has a lot to show for it.
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