Rachael: I was surrounded by all different styles of cooking and worked in the food service industry in just about every capacity you can imagine.
Rachael: Laugh more than you cry. Work hard and play hard. Eat well and you can eat more.
Rachael: I was always in the kitchen with my family, even as a baby, and I helped out from the time I could hold a spoon. The first meal I made all by myself was lasagna roll-ups.
Rachael: 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.
Rachael: (During interview with Larry King) That's even bigger than daddy's!
Rachael Ray: If you spent one day in a cooking school, you would most definitely see that I do not chop an onion correctly,but I get my jobs done fast. I'm not a chef. I don't cook like a chef.
Rachael Ray: When people are sick of me they'll let me know and I'll go away.
Rachael's 'perky' demeanor is often mistaken for a lack of seriousness about cooking. Although she received no formal chef's education, she is indeed a force to be reckoned with in the world of cuisine.
Rachael made an announcement on February 21, 2007, that she has been honored by Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in New York City, with a wax replica of herself.
Rachael became a spokesperson for Nabisco crackers in November, 2006. She is featured in television commercials and on boxes for many of their products, some of them feature a recipe written by her, as well.
Rachael's eponymous magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray premiered on October 25, 2005 in conjunction with Reader's Digest.
Rachael is known for using approximations in her recipes, such as 'half a palmful' and 'eyeball it', instead of exact measurement.
Rachael credits the inspiration for 30 Minute Meals to her interaction with people at the store she worked at. They would come in reluctant to cook, so she would offer them a '30 minute' recipe, so that they would at least try.
Her husband, John, does the dishes.
Rachael was a competitive cheerleader in high school.
Rachael has a dog named Isaboo, sometimes calls her Izzy.
On September 24, 2005 in Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy, Ray married John Cusimano, a lawyer and member of the band The Cringe.
She was named one of Time magazine's most influential people of 2006. She was nominated by fellow Food Network star, Mario Batali.
She helped promote products for Price Chopper supermarkets and Burger King, and has developed her own line of cookware and cutlery.
In Albany, New York, she worked as a buyer and chef at the Cowan & Lobel market.
While working at a food equipment store in Albany as a buyer and cook, Rachael began a series of cooking classes to increase grocery sales during the holidays. 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 Rachael to do a weekly 30 Minute Meals segment for the evening news.
She wrote her first book in 1998. She met with an independent Manhattan publisher about turning her bundle of recipes into a book. 30 Minute Meals ended up being produced that same year and sold 10,000 copies locally.
Rachael Ray's new 1 hour syndicated talk show debuted at the top of the ratings.
She was born into cooking.
Rachael Ray is the host of $40 a Day, Inside Dish with Rachael Ray, 30 Minutes Meals, and Rachael Ray’s Tasty Travels on Food Network.
Rachael's career started when she worked at a Macy's marketplace. She started at the candy counter, then moved to manager of fresh foods.
She had a family restaurant in Cape Cod.
Her career started at a place called Macy's Macketplace in New York.
When asked what she would eat if she only had $5 a day, Rachael responded "I would buy a bloody mary at happy hour -- gazpacho with a kick."
Rachael is 5'4" tall.
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