Rachael Ray is a businesswoman who is known as a celebrity chef, TV personality and author. Her family was in the restaurant business; they owned 4 of them. When she was 8 years old they moved to Lake George, New York where her mother managed restaurants.
Ray went to New York City in Most of her early jobs were in the food industry. Ray started with small cooking segments and went on to making her first book deal.
Her mother worked 40 years as a chef and manager at various restaurants in the area. Ray graduated from high school in and in the s moved to New York City, where she landed a job at the candy counter at Macy's Marketplace and worked her way up to manager of the fresh-foods department. After surviving a violent mugging, Ray decided to leave the city and head home to the Adirondacks, where she rented a cabin on three acres.
While working there, Ray noticed a trend—many of the store's customers never actually cooked. Brides-to-be, scout groups, and senior citizens flocked to the classes, which became so popular they sold out. Soon, an Albany television station asked Ray to do a weekly evening news "minute meal" segment.
This local show featured Ray traveling to a different viewer's home each week and teaching the resident to cook a meal using the time-saving tips she had picked up in busy restaurants over the years. Ray cooked in fire stations, dorm rooms, and senior centers. In , Ray compiled her recipes into a cookbook, Minute Meals. Available only in grocery stores, it sold 10, copies in ten days. In , the Today show caught wind of Ray and invited her to cook soup alongside its anchors.
She nailed the segment and the Food Network began courting her. Ray, however, was nervous that she would not fit in alongside the network's celebrity chefs like Emeril Lagasse.
Speaking to Newsweek 's Marc Peyser, Ray recalled an early discussion. You guys are champagne, and I'm beer out of a bottle. I'm not a chef. I can't even learn to be a chef. I chop onions wrong. Despite Ray's initial lack of confidence, viewers tuned in to see the perky, unguarded host. Over the next few years, Ray gained many followers—but also a legion of detractors. Hatred for Ray's amateur style runs so deep that food purists have launched anti-Ray blogging sites.
Rachael Ray I don't categorize food as bad or a guilty pleasure. Rachael Ray I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for. Rachael Ray I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me.
I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. Rachael Ray I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin. We still don't have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles.
Rachael Ray I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning. Rachael Ray I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.
Rachael Ray I work too much to be an appropriate parent. I feel like a bad mom to my dog some days because I'm just not here enough. I just feel like I would do a bad job if I took the time to literally give birth to a kid right now and try and juggle everything I'm doing. Rachael Ray I've never been a huge sweets eater, and I've always loved a Mediterranean diet. We eat a lot of dark leafy greens, and a couple meals each week are meat-free. We enjoy eating a balanced diet. Rachael Ray If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first.
People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else. Rachael Ray It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances. Rachael Ray My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air.
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