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Rachael Ray: Food Network
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Rachael Ray is a love-her or hate-her kind of personality. Millions adore her quirkiness and down-to-earth style. Others, including many celebrity chefs and food writers, heap criticism upon her. Entire blogs are devoted to slamming the self-proclaimed Anti-Martha Stewart.
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Rachael Ray is a television personality who gained celebrity status for her many television series on the Food Network. Having hosted no less than four shows for the network, Ray ... has her own magazine and, since 2006, a talk show executive produced by Oprah Winfrey.
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Food Network personality Rachael Ray arrives at a dinner to celebrate Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world in this file photo from May 8, 2006, in New York. The celebrity chef made sure that the students who lost eight classmates and their school in a tornado got a senior prom, a newspaper reported Thursday April 5, 2007. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow-File)
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Though born in Massachusetts, Rachael Ray has called upstate New York home for most of her life. It was there that, after gaining experience in the food industry in New York City, she first became noticed as a celebrity cook in the late 1990s. After signing on to The Food Network in 2001, she quickly built an empire out of cookbooks, TV shows and cooking products.
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Rachael Ray got her start in television doing a weekly segment, 30-Minute Meals for the evening news. Her TV work grew to include a series of lifestyle and travel segments following the theme of, "You do not have to be wealthy to lead a rich life." The Food Network picked up 30-Minute Meals in 2001 after seeing Rachael on The Today Show.
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Everyday with Rachael Ray brings you the most charming, down-to-earth, real-life cook in America - Rachael Ray. Each issue features 30-Minute Meals, Rachael's Diary, Big Bashes - Small Get Togethers, Stolen Weekends, Real Cooks Networks, Quick Hits, Every Day Menu Planner and No Recipe Zone. Everyday with Rachael Ray brings you smart entertaining, delicious food and spur of the moment travel plus so much more. A great magazine!
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