How Cool is That? New York Times Profiles Rachael Ray

Hey, I get excited enough to post here when I discover a little two-paragraph blip about Rachael Ray in some smalltown paper. Imagine how thrilled I was to discover a 4 page--yes, 4 page--profile of Rachael Ray in the nation's most influential paper, the NY Times!

A great article...and a must-read for Rachael Ray fans. Yes, it features a candid picture of Rachael Ray spending some time with her family in her cabin. Yes, it provides a nice Rachael Ray bio. Yes, it discusses her new magazine, Every Day on Rachael Ray. Yes, it provides some interesting tidbits and facts you probably didn't know (did you know Rachael Ray was mugged while living in the city???).

And, as the advertisers like to say, there's more! The Rachael Ray article in the NYT also spends a lot of time on Rachael's mother, as a way of getting the reader to develop an understanding of the popular cookbook author and television star.

What I really enjoyed about this extensive piece was how all of the facts and anectdotes combined to paint an overall portrait of Rachael Ray. Additionally, I thought the piece was pretty fair--although it focused on Rachael's successes it also dealt with some of her detractors and outlined some of the bumps that might be ahead as the Rachael Ray career continues to soar.

There were so many great quotations, I found it hard to pull just one great excerpt to entice you to read the whole Rachael Ray article. So, I am going to hand you the conclusion to the article and let you go read everything the NYT has to say about Rachael Ray:

"This thing took on a life of its own," she said. "It's my job to keep working because now there is this thing that people depend on." To make it work, she intends to keep doing what she has always done: show up, work hard and listen to her mother. "My life came out way better without me planning it," she said.

Read all about Rachael Ray here!

Note: I am not sure, but I think you might be required to register before reading the Times' Rachael Ray piece.

Also, I was sort of miffed that the paper was willing to provide a link to the Rachael Ray haters out there while skipping over all the great pro-Rachael Ray resources out there. I know, that is sort of a petty grip, but still.....