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I've never enjoyed her voice or her down-home speech mannerisms. HOWEVER, as someone who literally learned how to cook just in the last year, starting from absolutely nothing (sorry, we didn't all have Julia Childs for a mother), I can tell you that her "kindergarten-level teaching style" is precisely what makes her appealing. Her recipes may be boring, but they're a damn good starting place.
I think my generation was seriously neglected in the cooking arena. None of my friends learned how to cook from their parents. Someone in the cookbook thread, I think it was footfootfoot, was complaing about how pathetic it was that the new version of "The Joy of Cooking" didn't even have such basics as how to make your own mayonnaise, and the only thing I could think was "WTF? People DO that?!" For the first 18 years of my life, my family ate out at restaurants at least 2-3 times a week, and the rest of the time we ate the same 6 or 7 really simple meals, over and over and over. Rachael Ray is the halfway house between box macaroni and Julia Childs. You have to respect that she fills a legitimate niche.
On the other hand, I readily admit she is really annoying. I get all her recipes straight from the Food Network website.
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