Rachael Ray Doesn't Regret Racy Photo Shoot

Us Magazine ^ | 2 March 2009 | Staff

[AreaMan]

I love this:

Ray also raised some eyebrows for her endorsement deal with Dunkin' Donuts.

Chef Anthony Bourdain famously said the TV spots were "evil" and "like peddling crack to kids."

If anyone knows about crack it would be Chef Bourdain.

I like watching Bourdain but please...don't like Dunkin Doughnuts...don't eat one.

[razorboy]

What she should regret is bloating up so nobody would offer to take that kind of picture to her now. And Bourdain hates everything about Ray, he might have actually liked Dunkin Donuts until she did those ads.

[cripplecreek]

I like Bourdain’s show too but he’s rather pretentious. The show I like most is the bald guy who eats weird stuff.

[driftdiver]

“I like watching Bourdain but please...don’t like Dunkin Doughnuts...don’t eat one. “

I agree that if anyone knows about crack its him, and with the stuff he’s eaten there is no room for criticism of donuts.

[ikka]

I thought he just really, really liked powdered sugar ... for his cooking!

[rahbert]

anyone who eats hog anii has nobuisness lecturing anyone
about donuts.

[AreaMan]

What she should regret is bloating up so nobody would offer to take that kind of picture to her now.

I concur.

[DonaldC]

Innocent!

[Retired Greyhound]

It was way back when I was young. I think I was only 35 at the time.

[Diogenesis]

[GeronL]

morality and family values are dead dead dead. our country is doomed

[Goldsborough]

The relative “greatness” of Bourdain is that he is fully aware that his current gig demands his self-caricature, and he more or less cheerfully does that. It is the captured moments of when he is being sincere and genuine that are what really makes his show the best of its genre.

[mountn man]

What would be great, would be to actually see a show about travel on the Travel Channel and not about food. Put Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and Adam Richman on Food Network.

All day or night its all Bourdain or its Man vs. Food or its Bizzare Foods.

Maybe something bizzare would to actually do shows about travel. Like Samantha Browns shows.

I used to like Rachel Ray but her in your face personality ALL the time has got tiring. She used to seem like somebody from the neighborhood. Now she seems like Oprah light (or is that Oprah white).

Now Giada is easy on the eyes.

Paula would be fun to meet. Guy Fieri would be fun to meet also. His show actually makes me want to check these places out.

[BenLurkin]

We are heading for a hard landing on the rocks and soon.

[ConservativeStatement]

The Bourdain episode with Ted Nugent was a blast. Bourdain mentioned his politics were opposite of Nugent but he (Bourdain) also poked fun of his liberal friends and praised Nugent in multiple ways.

[llevrok]

Not my cuppa tea, is she. Chunky with scratchy voice and far over rated as a TV personality. Too perky like Katie Couric too. Ick

Other than that, she's ok, I guess.

[Goldsborough]

Samantha Brown's shows are the antithesis of what the Travel Channel should be about. She has an original take on just about nothing.

I agree that the TC has gone too "foodie" of late, but more insipid milquetoasts globetrotting isn't the cure.

One can always write to some governmental ministry or "tourism office" for the highly varnished tourist info like Brown cheekily (and boringly) provides.

[geege]

I just can’t stand Giada.....She talks to her audience as though we are retards...”Now you take your spoon and scoop up a piece, and put it in your mouth....Isn’t that pretty....That’s so pretty....And thyme is this lemony oh so fresh herb and it’s so pretty”.....and she’s bossy....”Ok now everyone can start eating...OK guys pick up your forks and dig in”.....She’s a nuisance to me...I like enjoy Bourdain and Ina and Iron Chef.

[mountn man]

I was never a huge fan of Samantha Brown, but at least it had something to do about traveling somewhere, and seeing something worth seeing, somewhere else.

[mickey finn]

As long as RR has something in her mouth, and isn’t yapping, I can tolerate her.