| Rachael Domenica Ray is an Emmy-winning television personality and author who hosts at least four different programs on cable television's Food Network: 30 Minute Meals, a Day, Inside Dish, and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels. She has authored a series of cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept. She will also host a syndicated TV talk show starting on Monday, September 18, 2006. Ray's family is Italian-American on her mother's side and French-American on her father's side. Her family owned a restaurant in Massachusetts, while her mother managed restaurants in upstate New York. Rachael started working at the candy counter at Macy's in New York City. She helped open Agata & Valentina, a New York City market. Moving upstate, she worked as buyer and chef at the Cowan & Lobel market in Albany, New York. Ray credits the concept of "30 Minute Meals" to her experience working at a gourmet food store where people were reluctant to cook. She began teaching a cooking course showing people how to make meals in thirty minutes or less. With the success of her "30 Minute Meals" classes, Schenectady, New York TV station WRGB, the local CBS affiliate, asked her to continue on their newscasts. This, along with a public radio appearance and the publication of her first book, led to a Today Show spot and her first Food Network contract. She also cut a few commercials for Schenectady-based grocery chain Price Chopper, which stocks all her books at their stores and retains her as an occasional spokesperson. Ray owns homes in Lake Luzerne, New York and Manhattan's Greenwich Village. On September 24, 2005 in Montalcino, Tuscany, Italy, Ray married John Cusimano, a lawyer and member of the band The Cringe. Ray now owns a dog named Isaboo whom she got after the death of her dog Boo. Rachael devoted an episode of 30 Minute Meals entirely to her deceased pet, containing all of Boo's favorite people foods.
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