Rachael Ray

Ask A Geto Boy: My Boyfriend Refuses to Get Tested for STDs

Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! LONG DISTANCE LOVE FADING Dear Willie D: I'm in a long-distance relationship with a good man, but the miles are starti ... More >>

It's Deschutes Base Camp Week in St. Louis!

It's freakin' beer mania here in St. Louis this week! Deschutes Brewery is in town from Portland, Oregon, and they're partnering with various bars and restaurants in town to bring you a plethora of beer-related activities and events. The festivities, which Deschutes calls Base Camp for Fanatics, o ... More >>

Loving Pig's Face and Learning to Leave His Roast Chicken Alone: A Q&A with Vino Nadoz's Chris DiMercurio

This is part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Chris DiMercurio of Vino Nadoz. Read part one, a profile of DiMercurio, here. Part three, a recipe from DiMercurio, will be published on Friday. Chris DiMercurio worked alongside -- and learned from -- some of St. Louis' talented young chefs ... More >>

The Class War Between Food Culture and Music Culture

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship I'm a sucker for the Food Network. Chopped is my jam, I have strong opinions about specific Iron Chefs, an ... More >>

Wanna Be the Next Food Network Star?

​Are you the next Bobby Flay? The next Rachael Ray? The next Paula Deen? We hope not -- one of each of them is more than enough. But if you've always dreamed of televised culinary superstardom, your big break might have arrived.Food Network Star (formerly known as the Next Food Network Star) has a ... More >>

John Griffiths of Truffles: Recipe for Olive Oil Shortcake

This is part three of Amanda Woytus' Chef's Choice profile of chef John Griffiths of Truffles. Part one can be found here. Part two, a Q&A with Griffiths, is published here.Amanda WoytusThe Olive Oil Shortcake at Truffles​We know what you're thinking: Rachael Ray nearly ruined olive oil for al ... More >>

Oprah's Seven Best Food Moments

persephonemagazine.com​ Today the world bids farewell to "The Oprah Winfrey Show". Twenty-five years of gab, angst, couch-jumping, jailhouse interviews, favorite things, crazy giveaways, fad diets, weight loss, weight gains and lots of chow. No, we're not making any fluctuating weight jokes ... More >>

Rachael Ray Gets Her Best Catchphrase Ever

Yum-o! EVOO! Delish! Rachael Ray has finally come up with a catch phrase we can get behind, with some help from the good folks at Funny Or Die.

Oh, God, the New Rachael Ray-Guy Fieri Show Sounds Even Worse Than We Thought

​Last month, we learned about several new shows coming to the Food Network. The most ominous of the many ominous new titles was something called Guy vs. Rachael's Celebrity Smackdown.Well, Guy Fieri went on The Rachael Ray Show yesterday, and the two announced the new show. It's even worse you pro ... More >>

Ten (Imaginary) Shows We'd Watch Instead of the Food Network's Latest Garbage

Guy Fieri, starring in exactly none of our proposed Food Network shows​The Food Network this week announced several new series to debut this year and next. Frankly, even by the Food Network's ever-lower standards, the list is unappetizing.Among these new shows is an unholy marriage of Guy Fieri an ... More >>

HandleBar's Keeley McGrew: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Chrissy Wilmes profiles HandleBar bartender Keeley McGrew. Below is a Q&A with McGrew, followed by the recipe for a Hot Taty, her reimagined vesion of the classic Hot Toddy. Chrissy Wil ... More >>

Sandra Lee's Blenders and Six Celeb Chef Products That Should Exist

couchpotatocook.comSandra Lee, surrounded by a bunch of Kmart crap.​Coming soon to a Kmart near you next year -- Sandra Lee's line of "cookware, small appliances and other kitchen products." OK, so that doesn't sound dissimilar from the line of goods Martha Stewart hocked at the lagging disc ... More >>

Jane Muscroft of Queen's Cuisine, Part 2

This is part two of Deborah Hyland's Chef's Choice profile of Jane Muscroft of Queen's Cuisine (qconline.us). Part one can be found here. Part three, a recipe from Muscroft, will be published tomorrow. Deborah Hyland​Did your family cook when you were a child? Oh yes. My mum cooked dinner eve ... More >>

Sly Stallone's Pudding, Ron Jeremy's Rum: Most Appetite-Curbing Celeb Food Products

Yesterday we questioned the proliferation of celebrity-owned chicken restaurants, with the opening of Flavor Flav's first Flav's Fried Chicken in Clinton, Iowa. But Flav's foray into food service left us with a second question: do you really want to eat food made by this guy? VH1 TV Shows | Music V ... More >>

Kanye West's New Food Lyrics

Screenshot: noonemanshouldhaveallthatflour.tumblr.com​For several weeks now, Kanye West's new album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, has been playing nonstop at Gut Check International Headquarters. So we were excited to discover, via Grub Street, No One Man Should Have All That Flour, which po ... More >>

Rachael Ray Spars with Letterman, Hosts Burger Bash

On Friday night, while David Letterman took Rachael Ray to task (via Eater), she was at the "Blue Moon Burger Bash presented by Pat LaFrieda Meats, hosted by Rachael Ray", a part of New York Wine & Food Festival. The New York Observer reviews the event. While the U.S. focuses on childhood nutritio ... More >>

David Letterman's Late Show Tonight Features Apology-Worthy Interview with Rachael Ray

​It might be worth tuning into The Late Show With David Letterman tonight to see exactly what happened with Rachael Ray to get Dave all fired up. After Tuesday night's monologue, the talk-show host issued an apology to Ray, who had recorded a segment with Letterman the day before to air toni ... More >>

Some Reservations: Galloping gourmand Anthony Bourdain pauses to take stock

Interview with Anthony Bourdain: "I Wonder Sometimes If I'm a Malevolent Force"

Photo: The Travel ChannelAnthony Bourdain​"I'm gonna walk out on stage, talk for an hour, [do] question-and-answer," says Anthony Bourdain of his October 1 appearance at the Fox Theatre. "It's as crazy, as rowdy, as entertaining as the audience cares to make it."The visit will be Bourdain's first ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Image via Aleppo, Syria​There was a sense of newness around the Gut Check desk this week. We learned about Aleppo pepper as we welcomed the first installment of Spice World, a column about overlooked spices from around the world, we found out about a new place for pizza in south c ... More >>

Rachael Ray Portrait Made of Cheetos

I mean, what else is there to say? It's a guy making a portrait of Rachael Ray entirely out of Cheetos. Via Eater.

Titli Nihaan Explains How to Be a TV Mega Chef

America may have Paula Deen, Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee, but it takes a Brit to tell us how to gain such a level of celebrity chef fame. Titli Nihaan found her fame by posting cooking videos on YouTube and her blog, Titli's Busy Kitchen. This weekend she veered beyond her Asian and halal favorites ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 5.17

Remember Food Network's "Calorie Commando"? Neither did we, until CNN reported that he's being held on charges of hiring homeless people in a murder-for-hire scheme. Because the rice-growing bra isn't enough, Trendland introduces A Matter of Taste by Fulvio Bonavia, an art book featuring haute c ... More >>

A Food Writer's List of 10 Essential Food Books

​As much as I'd like to assemble a Top Ten Food Books of 2009 list, I'm so far behind in my reading that I'd struggle to compose a Top Ten Food Books of 2008 list. Best I can do for this year is two books. First, Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan. It's a cookbook, but you can -- and should ... More >>

Gone Missing: A sheep and fifteen pacifiers. Plus: We revisit a cold case and a cannon in Forest Park

LuLu the Pacifier-Eating Bulldog Wins Hambone Award

The Hambone Award​An English bulldog from the St. Louis 'burb of Warson Woods has won Veterinary Pet Insurance Co.'s Hambone Award for the most bizarre pet injury of the year. As reported here in Daily RFT, the bulldog named LuLu went to the veterinarian last December where surgeons removed a bott ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Hot in Herre Orange Mallow Refrigerator Pie

Todd Ehlers, Wikimedia CommonsThis weekend I'm jetting to slightly-less-hot Philadelphia, and I planned to make a vegetable scrapple from a southwestern cookbook.I couldn't do it, though, because scrapple, like haggis, should never be vegetarian. Also, it's hot, and I don't want anything boiling fo ... More >>

Fat No More: Unreal talks weight loss and Spanks with a top local loser

Why Does Dunkin' Donuts Hate America?

Choose Your Illusion

The end of "Mamalogues" brings on many RFT blog monologues

Top o' the Morning Brew: Monday, 3.17

South American Sips

Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House?

Review Preview: The Original Pancake House

Magically Delicious

Michael Ruhlman at Viking Thursday

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

Deck the Halls with Christmas Albums

B-Sides reviews the year's crop of holiday cheer and talks to Dweezil Zappa about his dad's legacy.