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Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
"When did Rachel Ray or Paula Deene become chefs? Cooks? Maybe. But not chefs."
Rachel Ray is not a chef, she's never even cooked in a restaurant, and what she does cook is disgusting (Hotdog Salad for example).
Paula Deene on the other hand, may not be a classically trained chef, but she started out owning and operating her own restaurant and her recipes, though not good for you, are some of the most delicious out there. Paula is a chef, much more so than Rachel.
Granted the only two on this list that I really respect as chefs are Ramsey and Bourdain, but that's because they are real chefs, they know what they want and don't put up with any crap in their kitchen.
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
Spot on, Bill. It's all about the cult of personality and to her credit, RR does not call herself a chef.
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
Salaries and "profits" from restaurant are two different things......
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
Television is about television, not cooking. The top earners on this list have leveraged the initial toehold of a cooking show into great wealth. People tune in to watch someone cook on TV because they're attracted to that personality,not particularly because they want a cooking lesson.
Ray was smart enough to understand that early on and began to build her brand apart from Food Network. Her fans would tune in to watch her scrub a sink.
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
I think a better title would have been food celebrities as opposed to "Celebrity Chefs..."
I read through the first page of responses on the article and it blows me away how many RR lemmings there are. I am so reminded of a woman who worked for me from Biloxi. She set her TIVO to record Oprah and Dr. Phil every day we were out of town and continually quoted the two. On another forum I used to spend a lot of time on, there was a woman who continually quoted "The View".
Thank gawd I quit drinking kool-aid when I stopped going to band camp.
If Oprah endor
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
In Rachel's defense, keeping in mind that I really do not like her, she herself has said on many occassions that she IS NOT a chef and does not consider herself to be one.
Do you have to be on TV to be a celeb chef? I wonder how much money Thomas Keller makes.
Top 10 Celebrity Chef Earners: Who Isn't on the List?
moral of the story.. dont believe everything you read. I work for a celebrity chef and his restaurants alone make him more than $1.5 mill a year. not to mention his book sales, endorsements, television shows and guest apparences.. and guys give RR a break!!!
Shes doing her thing, and doing it well. Go Rachel! /the sky's the limit and the ovens the transport to get you there : o
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"When did Rachel Ray or Paula Deene become chefs? Cooks? Maybe. But not chefs."
Rachel Ray is not a chef, she's never even cooked in a restaurant, and what she does cook is disgusting (Hotdog Salad for example).
Paula Deene on the other hand, may not be a classically trained chef, but she started out owning and operating her own restaurant and her recipes, though not good for you, are some of the most delicious out there. Paula is a chef, much more so than Rachel.
Granted the only two on this list that I really respect as chefs are Ramsey and Bourdain, but that's because they are real chefs, they know what they want and don't put up with any crap in their kitchen.