RACHAEL RAY Celebrity TV Host Top Chef
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Rachael Ray was born into cooking. “My first vivid memory is watching Mom in a restaurant kitchen. She was flipping something with a spatula. I tried to copy her and ended up grilling my right thumb! I was 3 or 4,” says Ray. “Everyone on both sides of my family cooks.”
Ray’s maternal grandfather grew and cooked everything that his family of 12 needed for sustenance, and her dad’s family was steeped in the food-rich traditions of Louisiana. The Ray family was also in the food business, owners of a family restaurant in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Eventually the family relocated to New York, where her mother went to work as the food supervisor for a chain of upstate restaurants.
Rachael Ray’s career started at Macy’s Marketplace in New York, first at the candy counter and then as the manager of the fresh foods department. After Macy’s, Ray helped to open Agata & Valentina, the prestigious New York gourmet marketplace, where she was the store manager and buyer. Though this New York City food fast track was exciting, Ray decided she wanted to return to the lifestyle of the Adirondacks.
Once upstate, Ray managed pubs and restaurants at the famed Sagamore resort on Lake George and was then recruited by Cowan & Lobel, a large gourmet market in Albany, to be its food buyer. Ray turned the job into dual positions as food buyer and chef. As a way to increase grocery sales during the holidays, Ray began a series of cooking classes.
The “30 Minute Meals” classes became so popular that the local media sent a feature reporter to cover the phenomenon, and the following
week, an Albany TV station asked Ray to do a weekly “30 Minute Meals” segment for the evening news. Nominated for two regional Emmys, the show was a major success: A companion cookbook sold 10,000 copies locally. Ray’s TV work grew to include a series of travel segments following the same theme of living a rich life without having to be wealthy. Today Ray’s work continues on Food Network’s 30 Minute Meals and $40 a Day programs.
Her successful series of cookbooks, all based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, include Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals, The Open House Cookbook, Comfort Foods, and Veggie Meals.
Despite her ever growing celebrity, Rachael Ray is determined to keep to her roots. She still lives in a cabin in the Adirondacks with beloved pit bull Boo, who reportedly “eats the mistakes.” In October 2013, the Rachael Ray syndicated talk show was renewed for two more years, which will take the show into its tenth season!
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