A story in my local paper about Rachael Ray (she was giving a presentation to some school kids) said that she was getting married this summer in Italy.
If anyone gets the Style Network, there is a new Nigella show on currently called “Forever Summer with Nigella.” Of course, the Style Network program guide won’t tell me when it’s on. But they claim it is. (I thought I got the Style Network, but apparently I don’t. Huh.)
Rachel Ray lives just a few minutes away from me. I once sat at the table next to hers at a Chinese restaurant in town and she never stopped talking throughout the whole meal. That being said, what I like about her show is that she actually does prepare the meal in 30 minutes. Unlike the other shows that have things already prepared in varying stages of “doneness”.
Pet peeves about other “chefs” :
Sara Moulton - I absolutely hate it when when she says “Well, you get the idea, of course, you’ll take the time and do it right”.
Giada aka Little Big Head - Besides her absurdly large head and man hands, I swear the woman has twice as many teeth as any other adult human. I also hate how she says spagheeeeteeeee.
Sandra Lee - There is not enough Bandwidth for me to list everything I hate about her.
Bobby Flay - Same as Sandra Lee.
But, My Alton Brown can do no wrong. 
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oh, thank Og! i thought it was just me that found RR and her unending string of superlatives insufferable. my husband thinks $40 a Day is great (well, it’s about the best offering in that timeslot on TV for our area). but if i have to listen to her gush about every forkful that goes into her face being the absolute best, most delicious, best ever, fantastic… :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
well, you get the idea. c’mon lady – how about a dose of reality here. EVERY thing you eat can’t always be the best thing on the planet. how about something being just “OK” once in a while? i’m minded of something like “when everything is special, then nothing is special.”
truly, she annoys the cr@p out of me after a few minutes. i’ll happily admit to not doing perky… and she sends my anti-perky sensors into heavy overload. she seems phony to the extreme.
Never heard of her before this thread. In response to the above link, I’d most certainly do her.
AKA the Praying Mantis, AKA Cantaloupe, AKA the Fivehead, AKA the Grey.
Giada is so creepy that I can’t stop watching.
Her recipes do look delicious, but I can’t stop looking at that huge noggin.
Also, the way she says “paarmaageeeanooo regeeeannooo” drives me up the wall. I’ve heard her say “parmesan” so I know she can.
Obligatory topical movie quote:
“Head! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours and get the paper if you can! Haulin’ that gargantuan cranium about! I’m not kidding, that boy’s head’s like Sputnik! Spherical, but quick pointy in parts. Well, that was off sides, wasn’t it? He’ll be crying himself to sleep tonight on his huge pillow!”
So I Married An Axe Murderer?
I like her kitchen, fifties style space age, it’s groovy. And I think she should include the cost of transportation in her $40 a day show. I mean she goes from downtown diner for breakfast, out to the beach or mountains for lunch then she hightails it back to the suburbs for supper. Must take her all day and to get around to all these super restaurants.
I do think she sometimes appears under the influence in her shows, the way she waves her knife when making a point, and the sloppy way she struggles to open a package of food.
But yeah Im bored with all the cooking shows, I miss that one guy who travelled insearch of unusual foods. He got the ax from FN a year or so ago. TOny, or carlos I cant remember his name. His show was fun.
Anthony (Tony) Bourdain! A Cook’s Tour! Awesome show, but it was a finite series that was filmed while he was traveling around and writing a book of the same name. I highly recommend you pick up the book if you enjoyed the show, and his other book, Kitchen Confidential, ought to be required reading for anyone with an interest in professional cooking and the restaurant business.
I had seen Rachel Ray before, just clicking through the channels, and thought she was a cutie, but I’d never watched her show before last night. I caught an episode of “30 Minute Meals” and I didn’t find anything especially annoying about her. Same as my first impression: cute enough, seems to like what she’s doing, yes she giggles too much but that’s not such a big deal. Maybe it was an old show and she has since upped the annoying ante. But I don’t really get the hating so much. However, I’m always willing to support anyone’s irrational hatreds, so hey, knock yourselves out.
Maybe so, but there’s that smile of hers… that fixed, Joker-on-Enzyte grin that just won’t stop. Gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies.
My sister in law and her husband told me that RR reminds them of me. I was skeptical, but then I watched her and WOW! She acts like me and looks a lot like me. I have that stupid laugh and I talk a whole bunch. There’s a few dopers here who know me IRL. I wonder what they think.
If you can do that FHM spread as good as her, then I know a few Dopers who’ll REALLY wanna see you at the next Dopefest… 