I'm not proffesionally trained, but in my kitchen, in my house, or when I'm preparing the chili for my entry in our annual chili cookoff, I'm the chef, because chef means chief of the kitchen. She might not be the chef of a proffesional restaurant, but then, that takes training well beyond what most of us here do. You have to be able to purchase large amounts of food, assign duties to your working staff, manage the dishwashers, the sous chefs, the wait staff, order supplies, make sure that the food is kept wholesome, tasty, and that it looks right. I am a pretty good cook, and am chef of my home kitchen. It would take formal training, and probably a year or more of it to to make me a proffesional chef. Ive got the math and cooking skills, but probably not the organizational skills for the job. I wouldn't want to be a chef. That's not the part of cullinary arts I'm interested in. But it doesn't detract from what I can do in the kitchen. And so it is with Rachel Ray.
She's a sometimes too bubbly personality who has to force it a bit due to telivision's unique quirks. but I think she does a pretty good job at what she does. And I think her food looks very edible. She's probably a better cook than most of the "chef's" in my home town. The restaurant fare around here is deplorable, with a few notable exceptions. I'd eat the food she cooks, and have fun making it with her. That's my opinion. I'd love to do a throwdown against Bobby Flay as well, with a few helpers to assits in food prep. It would be great fun. I think I could teach him a few tricks. I know he could teach me a whole bunch of new tricks. Same with Rachel Ray.
Seeeeeeya; Goodweed of the North