Rachael Ray Is Still Cooking, But Have People Stopped Caring? - Page 2
[EDITED TO ADD: After extensive searching, I did finally find where her show won one Emmy, for Outstanding Achievement in Technical Direction/Electronic Camera/Video Control. However, the wording on her site makes it sound like the entire show in itself won an Emmy, because when one reads it, that is the impression one gets. Winning one technical award does not make the premise of a show, its host, and the whole show in and of itself an "Emmy Award Winning" show, it just means one part of a show won.]
She has a contract through 2010, but everybody knows that contracts aren't worth the paper they're printed on, and anyone can be bought out.
My beef with her is this, plain and simple...she's annoying. She grates on my nerves (and apparently the nerves of many other people). I have never liked her. That voice, that ditzy demeanor, the way she says things like "sammies" and "YUM-O!" Ugh. Do people really say "Yum-O"?  I mean, people who aren't trying to feed a baby mashed turnips, that is.  Critics have slammed her cooking techniques and "30 Minute Meals" show. Oh yeah, and there was that Dunkin' Donuts coffee thing, where she called their coffee (which she's supposed to be promoting) a name which I won't repeat here but that rhymes with something her show isn't.
Don't even get me started on her cooking shows. Sorry, but it is just another indication of the "dumbing down" of Food Network, willing to pander to the lowest common denominator in their programs. Do programming executives really think the American woman is that stupid? To answer my own question...some women must be, since the powers-that-be gave her a show in the first place.
And seriously, I didn't know she had a daytime television show. Guess that doesn't say much for her program, huh?
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