Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968 in Glens Falls, New York) is a two-time Emmy-nominated television personality and author, who currently hosts the syndicated talk/lifestyle program Rachael Ray and two Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels. Ray has also written a series of cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2005.Prior to the launch of her talk show, Ray hosted three other Food Network shows, 30 Minute Meals, $40 a Day, and Inside Dish.

Rachael Ray is one of the most success celebrity cooks and went from scraping together the rent as a candy counter girl to a multi-millionaire with her own talk show, cooking show, magazine, and books that have sold more than 4 million copies.

Despite all the reality cooking shows, TV's not where the innovative cooking action is at. The real stuff is going down on the net. Because while Rachel Ray's pocketbook (and jowls) get bigger by the second, the unknown, unsung heroes, those Internet Chefs, are creating outlandish meals with no fame or fortune in sight--just for the love.

"Rachael Ray, the host of a few cooking shows on the Food Network, as well as her own talk show, has just bent over a bit too far." NSFW and it was COLD in that studio!

Rachel Ray has gone from a small time cooking show host to a big celebrity with her own talk show starting Monday. And she's pretty hot, too, for a short cooking show host about to hit 40.

Before Emeril Lagasse, before 30-Minute Meals with Rachel Ray-before Food even became a Network-there was the towering, yet approachable, figure of Mrs. Julia Child. A pioneer of television cooking shows, she nonchalantly ushered magnificent French-style cooking into everyday American homes.