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Rachael Ray

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2012

    SoBeWFF: "Nice Buns Here, and the Burgers Are Good Too"

    ​Al Roker, weather guy on NBC's Today Show, was munching on a juicy hamburger while some models in swimwear were showing off their tiny bathing suits. "We've got some really nice buns around here, and the burgers are good too."Jill Martin, also of the Today Show, was at the beach preparing for a c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2012

    SoBeWFF Burger Bash: Michael Symon's Three-Peat

    ​View photos of Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.Although we had grand dreams that a local chef would take the prize, Symon's B Spot Burgers claimed the People's Choice Award yet again this year at last night's Burger Bash (that's a third consecutive win for him). Fellow Iron Chefs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    SoBeWFF: Paula Deen's Southern Charm and Other Big Names at the Festival

    ​Famous for cooking rich Southern cuisine, Paula Deen received mixed press after announcing she had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. "I've never recommended that people go into their kitchen and prepare these fattening meals every day," she said. "But I'm feeling a little vulnerable." Truth is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    SoBeWFF: Where the Celebs Hang Out in Miami

    ​The South Beach Wine and Food Festival starts this Thursday, February 23, with satellite parties starting as early as tomorrow. Hotels, restaurants, and shops are gearing up for the invasion of foodies, celebrities and beautiful people who arrive as early as today.Since Miami has a thriving resta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    SoBeWFF Burger Bash 2012 Menu Revealed

    ​Hot damn! Something we've all been waiting for! Unless of course, you're no body (or Michael Symon). The sixth annual Burger Bash raised the curtains on its much anticipated 2012 menu at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.The meat 'n' bun monstrosities include Hot Chocolate's Signature Burg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 6, 2012

    Priciest SoBeWFF Tickets and Cheaper Alternatives

    ​Now that Super Bowl is over, we can concentrate on the next big event -- the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, which opens February 23. Like the big game, the SoBeWFF offers lots of opportunities to max out your credit card on parking, food, and booze. Tickets are expensive for the vario ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Celebrity Chefs' Million Dollar Mansions: Look What Cooking Can Buy

    ​Nearly all celebrity chefs have one thing in common -- a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to fame and fortune.Paula Deen (who just announced she has type 2 diabetes), was a young bank teller in Savannah, Martha Stewart used to babysit for New York Yankees' kids, and Guy Fieri's big ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2011

    Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri: Cooking With The Stars?

    Food NetworkRay and Fieri to host Celebrity Cook-Off​First there was Dancing With The Stars, which re-introduced us to such has-beens celebrities as Donny Osmond, Florence Henderson, Drew Lachey, and most recently Chaz Bono. Despite our repeated efforts at tying this to the end of the world (or be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    South Beach Wine & Food Festival Opens Ticket Presale For Amex Holders

    ​The 2012 South Beach Wine & Food Festival comes to town February 23-26 and promises to once again be the premiere foodie event in Miami. Festival favorites like Burger Bash ($225) hosted by Rachael Ray and Paula Deen's Sunday Brunch ($150) will be joined by some intriguing new events like Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    Shrimp, Tang and Urine: Ten Crazy Astronaut Food Facts (video)

    Astronauts chowing down at zero gravity​According to NASA, the last Space Shuttle Launch of STS-135 will take place at 11:26 a.m. this morning (be sure to put on the TV).  Just as space flight has evolved, so has the Astronaut's diet of what used to be Tang and tubes of ham salad and c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    SXSW 2011: Wanda Jackson, Dead Milkmen, Jeff the Brotherhood, and Ty Segall

    Wanda Jackson got the crowd twisting and shaking. ​All week, everyone was talking, "Michael Cera's here, Michael Cera's there. Where's Michael Cera?" On the morning of the final day of South by Southwest, we headed to a little Mexican restaurant called Mi Madre's. After ordering breakfast tacos, t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2011

    Feast or Salmon

    Wanda Jackson got the crowd twisting and shaking. ​All week, everyone was talking, "Michael Cera's here, Michael Cera's there. Where's Michael Cera?" On the morning of the final day of South by Southwest, we headed to a little Mexican restaurant called Mi Madre's. After ordering breakfast tacos, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    SBWFF 2011: Michael Symon Wins Burger Bash Again, Celebrity-Sightings Abound

    He hit the B Spot again.View more photos from the Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton South Beach here.​"Last year it was pastrami. This year it's salami. It's meat on meat, baby!" is what Michael Symon had to say last night as he accepted his second consecutive People's Choice Award at l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    SBWFF 2011: Tasty Libations at Moonshine's Shine & Swine

    All photos by Paula Niño​There was more shine than swine at last night's Original Moonshine Shine & Swine party at the W Hotel. Not that we needed much more food after stuffing ourselves at the Burger Bash, but anyone expecting much food likely left disappointed. There was plenty to drink, ho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    What Your $225 SoBe Wine & Food Festival Ticket Can Really Buy

    The Grand Tasting Village​No doubt, the South Beach Wine and Food Festival is the premiere event for foodies in Miami and around the world. Each year, tens of thousands of well-coiffed foodies and oenophiles swarm South Beach for a chance to sip wine, nibble on the finest foods and chase dow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    SoBe Wine & Food Festival: A Simple Person's Attempt at Navigation

    ​The Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival is a great big beast that seems designed for the press, the wealthy, and the social geniuses of the world, right? Even the name is long. The website appears so complicated with its many tabs. How does a normal human come up against this Goliath ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    Rachel Ray, the Ritz, & Burgers

    ​The Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival is a great big beast that seems designed for the press, the wealthy, and the social geniuses of the world, right? Even the name is long. The website appears so complicated with its many tabs. How does a normal human come up against this Goliath ... More >>

  • Dining

    November 18, 2010

    Lee Schrager: South Beach food genius speaks

    ​The Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival is a great big beast that seems designed for the press, the wealthy, and the social geniuses of the world, right? Even the name is long. The website appears so complicated with its many tabs. How does a normal human come up against this Goliath ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2010

    Food Feat

    ​The Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival is a great big beast that seems designed for the press, the wealthy, and the social geniuses of the world, right? Even the name is long. The website appears so complicated with its many tabs. How does a normal human come up against this Goliath ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    The Weekly Wrap-Up: Chicken Wings, Weird Vodkas and Cheese

    ​This week in Short Order ...Ten Weird Vodkas: From Root Beer to Bacon and Bubble GumLee Klein likes the cheese plate at The Cheese CourseIt was a matter of time: Rachael Ray makes it to the Cooking Channel (aka Food Network 2)Meatless in Miami: Vegans won't find many good pizza options in townChe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Cooking Channel Morphing Into Food Network 2 Quicker Than Expected

    You didn't think Cooking Channel would stay Rachel Ray-less, did you?​When it started, we gave the Cooking Channel one year -- two year, tops -- before Scripps Network would decide it wasn't a big cash cow. Not because we don't relish the though of a high-end version from the Food Network, but bec ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Cooking Channel: The First 24 Hours

    Laura Calder: Because every food channel needs its own Rachael Ray.​Yesterday, if you skipped on the memorializing of our nation's veterans through grilling various meats, you might have parked yourself in front of your TV to catch the premiere of the Cooking Channel. The network replaced Fine Liv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Cooking Channel is the Food Network Minus the Annoying TV Hosts

    ​You've seen it, the commercial on Comcast or DirecTV announcing the launch of the Cooking Channel May 31. First thought that probably ran through your head is we already have a cooking channel called Food Network. Don't worry then, this channel doesn't seem like its going to cater to you.In f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Looking to Attend the SoBe Wine & Food Fest? You Still Can

    ​Food Network personalities, high-profile chefs, and food fans from all over the world will descend over Miami next week for the 2010 South Beach Wine & Food Festival from February 25 to 28. You locals should consider yourself lucky: In years past, you'd be hard pressed to find a ticket to any ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Top 10 Hypothetical South Beach Wine & Food Fest Media Disasters

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/london/ / CC BY 2.0Ze paparazzi will be out in force.​The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is almost here, and that means an orgiastic horde of mostly out-of-town drunks on the shores of Miami Beach concerned with nothing but food, drink, sex, celebrity, their ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    Sobe Wine & Food Fest Releases More Burger Bash Tix for Sale

    ​News Flash: The South Beach Wine and Food Festival has expanded the site for their sold out Burger Bash event to include more of the Ritz Carlton South Beach's prime real estate and is releasing more Burger Bash tickets for sale.The post-sellout sale will sell out quick, so, act fast. The Burger ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 27, 2009

    Rachael Ray Donates 10 Tons of Dog Food to Miami Charity, Tries to Teach Dogs to Bark, "Yum-O!"

    Celeb chef Rachael Ray's clearly loves animals, as you can see above. If you visit the website for her line of gourmet dog food, the ridiculously titled "Nutrish," you'll find all sort of cute little stories about how Ray's dog Isaboo inspired her to create food for dogs without any of the fillers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Argie Cafe -- Fort Lauderdale Empanada Shop Serves 'Em Up Hot and Fresh

    Elba Travin has been running the Argie Cafe  in downtown Fort Lauderdale with her husband, Nestor, for eight years. They serve Argentine food, empanadas, pizza, and sandwiches. Elba told me that the empanada flavors they sell the most of are

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2009

    Slideshow: Amstel Light Burger Bash at The Ritz-Carlton, South Beach

    Logan FazioTasty, tasty T-shirt.The South Beach Wine & Food Festival is already in full swing, and last night, everyone's favorite quasi-cook and abbreviator, Rachel Ray, hosted the third annual Amstel Light Burger Bash at the Ritz-Carlton, South Beach. Our cameras caught all the beefy action, i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Escopazzo Sommelier Rich DiGacomo Talks Wine & Food 2009

    I cold-called Escopazzo out of our restaurant database and said, "Hey, I'm from the newspaper, what are you doing for Wine & Food?" Sommelier Rich DiGacomo had great answers for me. He talked about the Food Network, Rachel Ray, Key West prawns and drinking. Here's what he had to say:

  • Calendar

    February 19, 2009

    Recession Be Damned!

    Eat, drink, and spend at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival.

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2009

    Second Chance For SoBe Wine & Food Tix

    This coming Monday morning, January 12th, a second block of tickets for previously sold out events will go on sale. So if you were bummed at being shut out of Rachael Ray's Burger Bash or The Best of the Best at the new Fontainebleau, you've been given a second shot. You can get your tix  at ww ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    An Interview With Ted Allen

    C. StilesNectar Lounge at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek was host to the Christmas-ey dessert party, Sweet Dreams, this weekend. The event featured a huge spread of sugary cakes, candies, flash-frozen ice cream, and dessert sushi, which you can check out by viewing our slide show. But it also fea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2008

    The SoBe Wine & Food Fest Stocking Stuffer

    Starting this morning at 9:00 a.m., the South Beach Wine & Food Festival  is offering a week-long 10% discount on all ticket orders (before tax and service fees). The deal closes Friday, December 19, at 5:00 p.m., and all orders placed by this time are guaranteed delivery before Christmas D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2008

    SoBe Wine/Food Fest Tix Go On Sale

    Starting this morning at 9:00 a.m., the South Beach Wine & Food Festival  is offering a week-long 10% discount on all ticket orders (before tax and service fees). The deal closes Friday, December 19, at 5:00 p.m., and all orders placed by this time are guaranteed delivery before Christmas D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2008

    The Party Crasher - Gloria Estefan Mingles with Celeb Chefs at Rachael Ray’s SoBe Soundcheck

    Starting this morning at 9:00 a.m., the South Beach Wine & Food Festival  is offering a week-long 10% discount on all ticket orders (before tax and service fees). The deal closes Friday, December 19, at 5:00 p.m., and all orders placed by this time are guaranteed delivery before Christmas D ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2008

    Pretty in the City - After the Gluttony

    Starting this morning at 9:00 a.m., the South Beach Wine & Food Festival  is offering a week-long 10% discount on all ticket orders (before tax and service fees). The deal closes Friday, December 19, at 5:00 p.m., and all orders placed by this time are guaranteed delivery before Christmas D ... More >>

  • Dining

    February 21, 2008

    Wine and Food Fest Pops the Cork

    SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

  • Calendar

    February 21, 2008

    Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

    SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2007

    Hot Scoops On The SoBe Wine & Food Festival

    SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2007

    Hot Scoops On The SoBe Wine & Food Festival

    SoBe’s culinary extravaganza gets under way.

  • Dining

    July 5, 2007

    Fame Game

    Chef Adrianne overachieves everywhere except the kitchen

  • Calendar

    February 22, 2007

    Open Wide!

    SoBe Wine and Food is baaaack

  • Calendar

    November 30, 2006

    Mysterious Ways

    SoBe Wine and Food is baaaack

  • Calendar

    October 5, 2006

    Let Them Eat Cupcakes

    SoBe Wine and Food is baaaack

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2006

    Battle of Who Sucks the Most

    SoBe Wine and Food is baaaack

  • Dining

    February 23, 2006

    Tin Chefs

    The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

  • Calendar

    February 24, 2005

    Sommelier Dynamite

    The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2004

    Kitchen Play

    The disconnect between a culinary student's white-collar dreams and the restaurant world's blue-collar reality

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