Rachael Ray (born August 25, 1968) is the host of the Food Network television programs 30 Minute Meals, $40 a Day, and Inside Dish . She was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

After college, she helped open Agata & Valentina, a New York City marketplace, and worked at Cowan & Lobel in Albany. When her 30 minute meal classes were a huge success, she was asked to continue them on the news. Her shows for Food Network continue to air and she has two new cookbooks set for release in October 2004. In 2003, she was featured in an FHM pictorial, and she was voted #92 on Censored page. She lives in the Adirondacks in upstate New York.

Bibliography

• 30 Minute Meals (1999)
• Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook (2000)
• Comfort Foods (2001)
• Veggie Meals (2001)
• 30-Minute Meals 2 (2003)
• Get Togethers: Rachael Ray 30 Minute Meals (2003)
• Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals: Cooking 'Round the Clock (2004)
• Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals for Kids: Cooking Rocks! (2004)

Source and external links

• Rachael Ray's Food Network biography http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/rachael_ray/0,1974,FOOD_9928,00.html
• Interview on PopCrazy http://www.popcrazy.com/features/rachaelray.php
• Rachael Ray on FHM http://www.fhmus.com/girls/covergirls/241/Default.asp?area=&id=241&page=1