Rachael Ray Quotes

'Iron Chef America' is so real. Imagine putting on television the whole process of making that food, the technique. It's all about technique. It doesn't even matter if you show the faces sometimes.

'Top Chef' is always entertaining - it's hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It's great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.

I would love to go on 'MasterChef'. But while I really like cooking, I'm doubtful anyone would ever want to pay for what I'd cooked.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

I would definitely be interested in doing a cooking show or something related to cooking, and I think probably most immediately, I would do a cookbook.

I'm obsessed with cooking shows, even though they make everything look so easy when it isn't.

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook.

I'm not sure I'd write a good cookbook, but I might make a good cooking show.

Of the people who cook on television, I have admired people like Jacques Pepin, Julia Child, Mario Batali, Jamie Oliver and a few others because they are free of drama, display good taste and masterful technique, and use clear exposition to bring you up to speed.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

Lidia Bastianich, sorry, but kind of boring. I mean, I love Lidia, but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death... but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

I love a nice cooking show. It's as aesthetically pleasing as any other thing that tempts the senses, I suppose.

I have a cooking show that's coming on that I did in Albany. It will be on The Cooking Channel.

I am so proud of 'Top Chef' - I think it's got great cred.

I learned so much from 'Iron Chef' about ingredients, about the courage to put yourself out there.

I love doing 'Worst Cooks' so very much.

I'm a good cook, and I look at something like 'Iron Chef' and think, 'It's a good thing I already know how to cook' - because I would never think I could do it if I watched these shows.

I'm as surprised as anybody. I never would have thought I'd be here talking about having a cooking show on the Food Network. It wasn't on my list of things, but it's fun, and I'm having a good time.

You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?

The old saying, 'An army marches on its stomach' has never been more true than in film and television. If it's good, cheerful, and exciting and full of great yummy things, then everyone does really well. If it's the opposite, it's very disappointing.

There is something timeless and beautiful about cooking straight to camera.

I could see myself doing a cooking show.

There is an old story that says that Julia Child dropped a chicken on the floor when she was filming 'The French Chef.' And then - that, in fact, is not true. She just, you know, dropped some potatoes she was trying to flip in a pan.

I can't say, maybe it's something in the ingredients, but again, we have a couple of contestants from Long Island and a phenomenal array of chefs.