![]() Avg.User Rating: Rate this person: Actor Born: August 25, 1968 in Cape Cod, MA Biography:In the early 2000s, culinary maestro and Food Channel mainstay Rachael Ray shot to fame as the host of the U.S. cable series 30 Minute Meals (2003), becoming the nation's resident chef with the golden thumb -- a status she inherited from such predecessors as Graham Kerr, Julia Child, and Jeff Smith. Her growing fame led to subsequent programs, cookbooks, a magazine, a general-interest talk show, and omnipresence in the States, eventually rendering her as a kind of American pop-culture icon, well before the age of 40.
Ray experienced a long and circuitous path to fame, however. She was born in August 1968, on Cape Cod, MA, to parents who ran a series of restaurants in that region; many of her ancestors were preternatural chefs, including a grandfather who grew and prepared meals for a family of one dozen and many paternal ancestors who celebrated and explored the gustatory end of New Orleans through... Full Biography
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