Biography of Rachael Ray

Rachel ray has a very magnetic personality! I began watching her show “$40 a day” about 6 yrs ago and got hooked immediately. She is a very down-to-earth simple person who assures you that it is ok not to know how to cook from scratch. You can actually relate to her. I never liked ‘Martha Stewart’ like people who are so unreal and annoying! I know some celebrity Chefs don’t give Rachael Ray due respect and credit that she deserves but the truth is that no body ever made cooking show so interesting for common audience before. Rachel Ray uses simple, canned or boxed ingredients, which can be found at the local grocery stores. She giggles and makes funny comments while cooking. She also tells stories about her family and gives her personal touch to the show. She is very entertaining and fun to watch and that is what people like about her show. Her ‘30-minute meal’ is such a hit TV show that I know some people actually following those recipes on daily basis! I myself have bough her 30-minute meal cookbook.

Rachael Ray was born in Cape Cod, Massacutees, where her family owned a number of restaurants. She grew up in an environment where cooking and food were a major part of her life. She says “Everyone from both sides of her family cook”. She always refers to her grandfather when it comes to authentic Italian cooking. Later, her family relocated to upstate New York, where her mother went to work as the food supervisor for a chain of restaurants.

Rachael's professional career started at Macy's Marketplace in New York at the candy counter. She was then promoted to manager of the fresh foods department. After Macy's, Rachael was involved with opening Agata & Valentina, the celebrated New York gourmet market, where she was the store manager and buyer. Later on she worked in Cowan & Lobel, a large gourmet market in Albany, as a food buyer and chef, she began holding classes called ‘30 Minute Mediterranean Meals,’ which caught on so quickly that soon she was giving them weekly on a local evening news show there. By 2001 ‘30 Minute Meals’ had premiered on the Food Network, followed by ‘$40 a Day in 2000', ‘Inside Dish in 2004’, and ‘Tasty Travels in 2005’. Author of numerous cookbooks, editor-in-chief of her magazine, ‘Every Day with Rachael Ray’, and host of a daily talk show, Rachael Ray has become a famous TV personality! She even has her own line of cookware.

Rachael Ray probably never went to any formal cooking school to become a Chef but has created simple, delicious and easy to cook recipes, which are not only quick to make but are very inexpensive too. She is a self-taught ‘Chef’ who has real passion for food and enjoys teaching common people how to cook and enjoy tasty meal on a budget.