The woman who gave us EVOO and garbage bowls has relaunched her signature show on the Food Network.
The first time we heard those words, it was 2001, and the Food Network had just given a very big platform to someone who, unlike most of its previous personalities, was not a restaurant chef. Rachael Ray rejected swap-outs and shortcuts and instead actually made a meal in the same time it would take to get delivery, endearing herself to time-starved home cooks and inspiring countless books, magazines and TV shows.The truth is, she never really went anywhere.
This time around, she’s had to pad episodes with cocktails and salads to fill the airtime. “I couldn’t slow the meal down enough … because the food was just too easy.” Spontaneity and even mishaps in culinary television go back at least as far as Julia Child, who was beloved for plowing ahead on the set of “The French Chef” no matter what. But as Food Network President Courtney White puts it: “Rachael was one of the first Food Network personalities able to show viewers that you don’t have to be a professional chef to be able to make a delicious meal.
Audience members wait outside to enter the studio for a taping of Ray’s talk show in New York. It was “as if she was cooking in her own kitchen,” says Kelsey Nixon, 34, who was not only inspired by “30 Minute Meals” to go into food media but applied that same keep-rolling mentality when she filmed “Kelsey’s Essentials” for sister network Cooking Channel. The message people got from Ray, Nixon says, was “I’m going to cook just like you do.
Ray in 2003. “When you handle chicken, the first thing you gotta do is get washed up. You don’t want to get those chicken juices anywhere.”
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