Rachael Ray
Born in Cape Cod, where her family owned a number of restaurants, Rachael Ray grew up in an environment where cooking and food were a major part of her life. When she was still very young, she moved to upstate New York, where her mother worked as the food supervisor of a restaurant chain. As an adult, Ray moved to New York City, where she worked in gourmet food markets, but after a few years there, she came back to Lake George, where she had grown up, and managed the bars and restaurants at the Sagamore Resort. This led to job in a gourmet market in Albany, where, as buyer ...[more]
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Rachael Ray's Too Cool for School: Mixtape for Kids is weirder than you might think from such a mainstream pop culture icon. Along with easily explained choices like the Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" and Harry Belafonte's "Banana Boat Song (Day-O)," and safe picks like the Persuasions' stately take on the Beatles' "Rocky Raccoon" or Sarah McLachlan's drowsy "Blackbird," Ray (or whomever she hired to put together the CD -- a fact the credits don't make entirely clear) [ read more ]
CD $7.59
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Despite her many abilities as chef, traveler, and television talk show host, Rachael Ray is in fact not singing or playing any sort of musical instrument on How Cool Is That Christmas. Rather, the album is a collection of her favorite Christmas songs, most of which fall into the "modern traditional" category ("Winter Wonderland," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas") and are performed by older, classic artists like Billie Holiday, Doris Day, Elvis Presley, and {$Willie [ read more ]
CD $6.64