Slate started it last summer. Last week, David Carr wrote about Rachael Ray in the Times, and to my dismay, he ran with the same line that Ray herself always uses when asked about Ray-haters. She’s not a gourmet chef, she’s just a regular gal, she can’t apologize for liking burgers and beer, food snobs will just have to get over it.
You see, the world is divided into two kinds of people: formally trained food snobs who hate burgers and regular, hard-working, busy people who only have time to eat piles of ground turkey and melted cheese for dinner every night.
Do you think there's any possibility that soapy liquid is skin-melting battery acid? One can always hope.
Posted by: Dairy Queen at October 30, 2006 9:36 PM
thankfully, the majority of us are not formally trained food snobs. I've never made a Rachael Ray recipe, but I still dig her:
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Posted by: foodnetaddict at October 31, 2006 1:43 PM
I don't understand the point of a food program that features stuff that's barely a notch above green beans and canned cream of mushroom soup. She seldom prepares anything that looks palatable, and although she's not all that hard to look at, she seldom says anything that interesting either. I don't get it.
It would take more than battery acid to melt THOSE thighs!
Posted by: Joy at November 5, 2006 10:40 PM
LOL!! Get over it little people. Rachael Ray is awesome. Why? Because she's real!!!! She's like the vast majority of the population. We are a society that is in a hurry. On the run. That will NOT change. In that frustrating, exhausting, day after day......world that we endure, Rachael Ray is a SMILE. When I have time, I can present dishes that would astonish the best chef. I don't use recipies or cookbooks. I create based on heritage. However, after a day as VP of a constructon company, mom of 3, (the youngest 7 hrs away at a private high school on scholorship) I live in Canada, my daughter is in gr. 10 in the US. I will be with her every weekend from now till hockey season ends. So, when I have to, I can and will pull a "Rachael" and everybody is happy. (words of wisdom.....don't let your head get so big that it breaks your neck)
Posted by: IamIng at November 8, 2006 9:11 AM
Please, even Kraft Mac&Cheese is better than the slop this twat can cook.
A trend? More like a fad.
Posted by: Mia at March 15, 2007 3:35 PM
It doesn't take a genius to make food taste good but it takes a raytard to make it bad. Why do she and Sandra Lee have shows? Because we are lazy. With people taking advice from these shows no wonder Americans are fat.
Hey smellyraytard you made a fool out of yourself. Go back to the hole you crawled out from. Rock on Rachael Ray !
Posted by: MMG at March 18, 2007 12:31 AM
regarding Imiming -- your 7 year old is away at school on scholarship? What merits a 7 year old for scholarship? he must have been studying since he was 18 months old. What does all this bloviating have to do with Rachel Ray? She's part of the dumbing down process of cooking in America. Food Network has gotten rid of most of the true chefs on their network and replaced them with half-wits like Rachel and Sandra Lee. None of whom even know how to spell scholarship.
I don't care if Rachel Ray is just a real american gal or not. I just care that she's ridiculously hot.
Posted by: Tony C at May 7, 2007 2:19 PM
why is it that the Majority of people that have either completed a culinary school, or just simply eaten at a restaurant that has culinary artists think that they are so much above the real people of the world. I know a culinary chef that is an extremely good cook, and on his own time he likes eating nasty greasy Jack in the Box super Taco's. but it's something that he likes.
It is his comfort food, and to each his own. Rachael never claims to be a culinary artist, and she makes really tasty meals that anyone...even us so much lower than the culinary snobs, can cook at home and enjoy!. I have actually used some of her recipes, and I like them very much!!!. Plus I don't care what anyone else thinks...SHE IS HOT...HOT...HOT...
LOOKING, so damn cute. I just want to hold her in my arms.
I feel sorry for the person who feels "uneasy" seeing those photos, I feel sorry for what she has to look at in the mirror every morning when she gets out of the bed! cause you have a body you are ashamed of take it out on rachael but you still probably look like a pig with lipstick smeered on! Have a great day!
One of my dreams it to have Rachel Ray prepare for me a delicious Mexican Lasagne. And then Ray-pe™ me, because she's a stone-cold babe.
Posted by: Rayfan at January 14, 2008 5:38 PM
Sound like the haters are the women who's hubby think Rachel is hot and uptight metros that want goat cheese on their pizza.This is the real world! She is not a gourmet chef. Big Deal neither are half the people on Food Network. I mean would you be happy if she looked more like Paula Dean? So get over the fact that she will have 100mil in the bank soon. Go home and drink some more haterade
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