May 15, 2005

Every Day with Rachael Ray & Other RR Musings

Launching August 30, 2005, Rachael Ray's new magazine will be distributed on newsstands!  "Every Day with Rachael Ray" will be published by the Reader's Digest Association in partnership with Rachael Ray.  When in full publication in 2006, the magazine will be published 10 times per year.

What, might you ask will be in her magazine?  Okay, most of us would presume recipes and food, right?  Right.  But the publication will incorporate recipes, entertaining and food destinations. The cover price will be $3.99.

Kitty Morgan, former senior editor at American Express Publishing's Departures will serve as editor, while designer Lucy Sisman, who worked on Condé Nast's Allure and Fairchild Publications' Details, will be design director. Overseeing the business side will be Reader's Digest vp, publishing director Laura McEwen.

"Rachael's high-energy style, down-to-earth approach and passion for food attract millions of fans to her TV shows and cookbooks," said Eric Schrier, president of Reader's Digest North America and Global editor in chief. "Couple that with our publishing know-how and expertise in food, home and family, and we have the recipe for an exciting breakthrough food magazine. "

Ray is best known as the host of the Food Network program, 30 Minute Meals, and is the author of several cookbooks, including Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals and Rachael Ray Best Eats in Town on $40 a Day.

I, for one, am looking forward to her magazine - I'm a magazine junkie by nature, and this will be no exception to that.  I'm always looking for new, simple recipes and she seems to have this mastered.  I also like the way her cookbooks are written, and I'm pretty certain she will have a lot of creative input in order to leave her mark.  It'll be something to settle into Fall with.

Two other tidbits I've read about with regard to Rachael Ray:  I heard her dog, Boo, died while at the vet's office.  She was very attached to her dog, so I'm sure it hit her pretty hard.  Lastly, I heard that her wedding to John Cusimano of the band "The Cringe" will more than likely take place in the Fall, in Tuscany.  I just had to get those last couple of items in here for you die hard RR fans!