Yum-o! has partnered with the Food Network and Share Our Strength to hold cooking classes for kids and families called Operation Frontline. SOS has been doing this for 13 years and this year, we had the honor of joining forces to help carry on the successful work already started. We did classes at the Food Network this October and November and I finally got some pics from the last class.
Read more about what we’re doing with Operation Frontline and of course, don’t forget to check out Yum-o!’s website with your kids www.yum-o.org.
Here’s one of the dishes we cooked that day-Turkey Bolognese-it’s a rollover meal!
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Here I am with some of the kids and families:
12.03.07 @ 3:14 pm
Rachael, you are great! You look good with an “itty bitty” hanging on you!
GO YUM-O!
12.03.07 @ 8:02 pm
Hey Rachel,
Keep up the amazing job on your show and thank you for the opportunity to be apart of it.
I was on your show this morning and I just wanted to tell you that you have inspired me so much in so many ways and you are truly amazing. I have never had as much fun as I had today. Not to mention how incredible Derek Jeter looked
12.04.07 @ 10:11 am
You are a Rock star Rach !!! Love ya, mean it
Merry Christmas !
12.04.07 @ 1:16 pm
RACHEL
i LOVE you
you are very inspring
i watch your show Every day
im doing a report on you
for school
right now you are
a great inspiration
12.04.07 @ 1:18 pm
RACHEL
i LOVE you
your a great inspriration
your AMAZING
i watch your show Every day
im doing a report on you for school
12.04.07 @ 2:36 pm
Rachael, Remember the Bundt cakes you could buy with fillings in them? Do you have any recipes for Bundt cakes like that that you could do on your show which I watch faithfully everyday? Your the best!
Fan For Life, Pattie
12.04.07 @ 3:45 pm
Rach,
I love your show, and I love using your receipes. I want to make your beef burgundy for a Christmas party, however your recipe says add two tablespoons of EVOO. What is EVOO? I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Dottie
12.04.07 @ 5:15 pm
Dottie, EVOO stands for extra virgin olive oil!
12.04.07 @ 5:27 pm
Hello Rach I watch your show every day
I wish I could cook like you do.I try but every thing gets stuck or burns..I can dont even cook eggs they burn.Can you help me some way….
THANK YOU
Wendy From ILL
12.04.07 @ 6:06 pm
hey - lookin’ good Rach.
that one pic was sooo cute with the little girl hanging on you.
xo cassie xo
12.04.07 @ 7:29 pm
Those are very cute pictures. You have a wonderful spirit and you are such a benevolent person. Many people look up to you, for you are very inspiring! What an awsome job you do :).
12.04.07 @ 7:31 pm
EVOO is: Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Gotta learn the Rachael Ray terms! Neat Huh?
12.05.07 @ 5:54 am
I was watching the show when you had a knife and glove for children for slicing, My grandson who is 8 and I watch your show and we also cook together. I would like to know where I can find this knife and glove. He would really like to be able to cut things up, but I am so afraid of him cutting himself. This looks like just the thing for us. I have given him his own set of cooking tools. So this would be just great to add. His name is Matt and he love to watch you.
Thanks for your help. We both love your show.
12.05.07 @ 10:58 am
HI RACH!
I WAS SO MOVED BY WHAT YOU DID FOR THE FIREMAN & THE NURSE FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THAT I HAD TO WRITE AND LET YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL PERSON WITH A BEAUTIFUL HEART. YOU HAVE SHOWN PEOPLE THE TRUE SPIRIT OF GIVING. EVEN THE SHOW WITH THE YOUNG MAN RAISING HIS NEPHEWS WAS MOVING. THANK YOU FOR BEING THE TRULY BLESSED PERSON THAT YOU ARE. YOU ARE TRULY ONE OF GODS GIFTS TO THIS WORLD.
12.05.07 @ 12:41 pm
OMG! Rach i love your show AND YOU well i want to be a cook like you that what i want to be when i finish my career and im italian like you.
{ME AMORE TU}:that means LOVE YOU IN ITALIAN
12.05.07 @ 10:20 pm
you are one awesome lady:) i love watching your shows! keep your chin up and stay strong!
12.06.07 @ 4:53 am
Being a personal trainer i rarely have time to watch t.v but seeing your show i can definetly make time.
12.06.07 @ 5:35 am
hey rach even in algeria people keep their eyes on your show you are so nice cute and lovelly women we thanks you from our hearts you are so so so beatiful. bye and see you in your show
12.06.07 @ 1:33 pm
Hi Rachael, I love you to bits - our tv network here in South Africa recently started airing your show and I make a point of watching everyday - I first saw you on Oprah. You make cooking look like a breeze and you also make a point of giving great tips on everything! Thank you for all your advice. My biggest wish would is to be on your show but for now I can only hope that you would one day do a couple of shows in S.A.
12.06.07 @ 6:27 pm
You’re so great rachael! i love you so much!!
watching your show brings a little bit of happiness to my day and makes me cheery
and i also love seeing your serious side and when you get emotional because it just further shows what a real human being you are and how caring you are.
Keep up the work you’re an inspiration rach!!
12.06.07 @ 6:36 pm
Hi Rachel,
Everytime I see you cooking in the kitchen, I say “I need to find a way to get her one of my “kitchen in a bag”. Imagine showing up with matching apron and potholders…..how about a pastry cloth…makes clean up as simple as 1,2,3,4 “flick it”. Problem is I just don’t know where to send it.
If you can buy a bed in a bag..why not a kitchen in a bag…hostess gift/housewarming/bridal shower…made by “sewwhat”
12.06.07 @ 9:20 pm
Hey Racheal,You have a great voice.I admire you. Happy Christmasand NEW YEAR
Monica
12.07.07 @ 10:51 am
Rachael,
I want to just say thank you to your Mom for giving all of us in tv land a chance to watch and know such a wonderful giving beautiful lady, We love you Rach.
12.07.07 @ 12:29 pm
My mom and I watch your show everyday!! We absolutely love you!! We had been watching on the food network for 4 years. My family sings your praises everday now that I can cook!! They love not eating the same 5 meals day after day!!! Thanks soooo much,
Maria
12.11.07 @ 6:14 pm
Hey Rachael.
You’re so inspiring.
I’m only 13 and thanks to you I already know what I want to do with my life.
I’ve always wanted to be on the food netwrok but theres not many odds of that!
I watch your show everyday and think you are amazing and beautiful :]
I’ve taught myself to cook and keep on keeping on knowing that some day I could be like you.
Thank you.
12.12.07 @ 9:39 am
Rachael,
Have you ever made a salsa out of a barbecue sauce that kids love and parents rave about?
Please take a minute and look at bobbieque.com.
Chef Bobbie
12.15.07 @ 11:24 am
i love you ray
your show is informative and enjoyable
some of your guess are not the best, but your make do; thats a good pointer,
john
12.20.07 @ 8:34 am
Hey Rachael!
You’re so inspiring! My friends 6 YO DD loves to watch your show w/me she wants to be cooking with you on the show one of these days. I told her if/when we get an invite I will be there w/her since her family is against her learning to cook @ this age since she is trying to be independant most of the time since everyone is too busy to include her in the cooking! I try my best to spend time w/her especially baking cookies for the holidays! I let her help me cook just measuring out the ingredients & stirring you’re using math skills & having fun @ the same time!
Have A Merrry Christmas!
12.21.07 @ 6:09 pm
Rach, oh my gosh you inspire me so much.Whenever I am home now I will go through my cabinates and pretend that I’m you and talk like I am you on your show. You are an amazing person and my altamate hero! I just dream that one day I could be like you.
12.22.07 @ 2:43 pm
rachel ur the best merry christmas
12.28.07 @ 10:55 am
You are amazing! I’m inspired soooo much Rachael! You have such a big heart:)
12.30.07 @ 4:24 pm
I love the fact that you are interested in teaching kids how to cook.I learned to cook by being in the kitchen with my Mom over the years, we had a meal at the table as a family every night. It seems these days that we don’t do that and we are always eating on the run. Kids need to learn how to prepare well balanced meals and how to make good food chocies. My 12 yr old son Josh wants to learn to cook like you! I hope he continues to keep his interest in cooking, and you keep inspiring America’s kid’s! Thanks for teaching me cool stuff so I can teach him.
Holly Wilson,
Reidsville, NC
01.02.08 @ 12:00 pm
Dear Rachael Ray,
You have inspired me so much. U are the best chef ever, so I created the best drink for u, the Yum-O!! Hot Coco!
Enjoy!!!!!! I LOVE RACHAEL RAY!!!
01.02.08 @ 4:50 pm
I want to try your “Peanut butter and jelly” cookies, but I see that no flour is required. Is this correct? I just have an urge to put flour in the mix, but I won’t. I will try them! Thanks.
01.03.08 @ 12:04 pm
Hey Rachael Ray!
Ever since I was able to cook in the kitchen I have been watching you cook and you are my role model!!!!!!!! I luv you so much!!! You inspire me so, so, so much because I think you can cook so so well and you are very pretty!!!!!
01.03.08 @ 12:32 pm
Hey Rachael Ray!!
Ever since I could cook in the kitchen, I have been watching you cook to inspire me! Geuss what? You did inspire me tremendously!!
You are my idol when it comes to cooking!! My dream is to meet you some day, that would be amazing to me!!!!! I just got your cook book for Christmas for kids, and I love it!!!! You are awesome, I love you so so so so much!!!!!!! I am only 11 yrs. old and I know what I want to do with my life, become a chef just like you!!!!!
01.03.08 @ 7:11 pm
hey rachel i just started wacthing ur tv show and i want u to know that i love it and i love the food.
01.03.08 @ 9:43 pm
I am writing a collection of books for teachers to use to cook in their classrooms. I would love to share them with you!
01.04.08 @ 3:53 pm
well i need to know where i can write a email to you because i want to write you a email personaly
01.04.08 @ 3:55 pm
hey rachael you are the best cook i seen you in minnesota at the book signing in Mall of America i drived 6 hours to see you and get a book signed but they had that wrist band thing i was so sad and mad at the same time because i love watching you on food network i really like cook too just like you!
01.04.08 @ 3:59 pm
hey this is alexandra i forgot to write that i didnt see you in minnesota and i want you try to write a email back if your not busy please bye
01.04.08 @ 6:47 pm
Rach,
I love your show. The only problem is that I don’t have cable. I wish that I could someday meet you! I have decided that I want to be a cook like you when I grow up! Is it a fun job? Keep on being you!
-Cook 2 B
01.04.08 @ 6:49 pm
Do you have a good kids cook book? My BFF has your book for kids called 30-minuet meals. Do you have any more?
-your NUMBER ONE FAN!!! Cook 2 B
01.04.08 @ 6:51 pm
Rach
One more thing… (I know that i have been wrighting a lot in the last…oh..5 minuets)! But, U ARE MY ROLE MODEL!! I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU!!!!!
01.04.08 @ 11:13 pm
Rachel this is a wonderful idea and right on time for me. My oldest daughter will be 4 in Febuary and is maturing so quickly. She takes the lead in assisting with her younger sister, cleaning and especially cooking. She has a passion already for cooking and I realized how deep it was when she demanded to watch your show two days in a row. Every weekday we are in front of the TV at 8:50 A.M. to be sure to catch your show at 9:00 A.M then later that day we make something from the show.
When it’s time for me to cook dinner she is right there beside me and each time you can count on hearing.. “Mom I have to cook like Rachel Ray does!” Now watching the show is not good enough she wants so badly to come to the show so I can tell you we’ll be seeing you soon. Thanks so much for providing the opportunity for our children to learn first hand the importance of nutrition and preparing meals. We support everything you do.
01.05.08 @ 12:57 pm
hey rach i just wanted to let you know you are a very good person and a big kid at heart!! i love watching your show you do everything so fast and i like that about you how you never worry if anythings gonna co wrong. i also like it when you say “i got the kids in the hottub” its so cute but anyway i just wanted to say youre a big help and inspiration to ALL women thank you. I LOVE YOU!!
01.06.08 @ 7:56 pm
Hi Rachael
What a great idea to help children learn how to cook and to cook HEALTHY! I’m a school nurse in a public school, we currently have 7 diabetics in our middle school (grade 7 & 8). We teach daily the importance of eating healthy and exercising. We are an inner city school and these children and parents need a great deal of help. I was reading our local paper and read that you will be at the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. I think the seminar on how to keep children and their parents fit is a great idea! It’s so important to teach the parents as well about healthy habits. There are two full time nurses at my school - maybe I can talk her into going to Miami for February vacation to the Festival! Thanks
Ellen
01.08.08 @ 8:39 am
Rachael,
I am actually writing this for my son. He has been watching you for so long. He is eight (8) years old and alwasy tells mama to “do it like Rachael Ray.” He makes her go into the kitchen and do a cooking show so he can talk to the audience. He was born three months pre-mature and didn’t start talking until he was three (3) years old due a mild case of CP. He is a bundle of energy and loves his Rachael Ray. I just wished to share this with you as to brighten up your day as he does mine.
Keep up the good work.
Sincerely,
Richard Dixon for
Ezra Dixon
P.S. He said to make sure I tell you “Ezra Loves You?
01.09.08 @ 11:02 am
Hey Rachael;
i hope u get to read this!
i am a mom of a 5 yr old, i am hispanic but more american if you ask me,lol. well i have been wanting to do some of your receipes but i HAVE not idea where to find stuff in the grocery store! when i go and have my list ready i ask the people there and they have no idea neither! so i end up not doin anything but FROZEN food! i want to be able to COOK SOOOO bad but i lack experience in the store and kitchen!!! PLEASE HELP!! my poor kid wants mom to cook homemade meals. lol!
01.10.08 @ 5:35 pm
My 6 year old son loves you. When I get off work and I am trying to decide what to cook we watch your 30 minute meals show,and when he helps me cook he pretends he is hosting a show. when I picked him up from daycare yesterday he asked if we could play Rachael Ray when we got home. So now you are a game to him. Thanks for helping me get through the week.
01.14.08 @ 8:16 pm
Dear Rachel,
I love watching your show whenever I can. However, you have a very young admirer- he is my grandson, Mateo, 4 years old. He loves to help his Mom cook and help me bake. He wants to know if we have all the ingredients, then he tells us what to do. He always asks if it is Rachel Ray’s recipe. He watches your show every chance he has and is mesmerized by you. He would like to meet you.
01.16.08 @ 11:59 am
Rach, we think that this is one girl that you will want to meet, she looks like you and she loves to cook if i let her if its not hot things. katlyn is my granddaughter and she is 6 years old
01.18.08 @ 11:20 am
Rachael, My 5 year old is just crazy about you. She started school this year and i had to go buy a tivo so she can watch your talk show when she gat home. thats just the starts of things. after she watches that she turns the station on food network so she cann watch 30 min meals. I would love it if u can make her dreams come true for her birthday and invite her to your show.please and thank you
01.22.08 @ 5:14 pm
I loooooove you so much I am 12 going on 13 I DVR all of your shows when I at school I cook so much (everyday) you are my hero ,my idol , my life i whould give every thing in the world to come to your show and to met you , now i have a bonch of problems with my helfe i have a exteme lack of cardlege and dehf in one ear and where a hering ad in the other i lack groth hormon so i take a shot every morning and i also have asbergrs cindrom as i said you are the BEST i hope you write back
01.30.08 @ 10:09 am
Hello Rachael:
let me first say that i first heard of you on Dunkin Donuts commercial. I then saw your show and was quite impressed by your charming personality and striking good looks. I want to applaud your efforts with helping kids realize the importance of healthy eating and proper dietary habits. It not only helps to prevent malnutrition but helps to combat the near epidemic problem of childhood obesity. I look forward to reading and seeing more of your books and your shows. Keep up the the good work!
Jeff
01.31.08 @ 8:22 pm
rachael, u are so cool. when i first saw ur show i thought u were like the COOLEST person in the world!!(and u always will be!!) i love u so much! u would be so fun to hang with! i am ur total NUMBER ONE FAN!!! Love- Kaitlyn Ray Christenson
02.02.08 @ 11:57 am
Hi Rachael i am 12 years old and I just wanted to tell you that you are a role model for me because i really want to be a chef and a manager of my own hotel/restaurant when i grow up. so everyday when i get home from school i head straight for the t.v. and watch your show hopefully without any interruptions from my brother. well i tried getting tickets to your show when i was visiting New York last summer but my mom said she wasn’t sure if we could. so i am hoping and wishing really hard that by the time i get out of collage i will be as good a chef and as good a person as you.
02.03.08 @ 10:14 pm
Dear Rachael,
I am 7 years old.I made your fudge recipe for the first time for our super bowl party. Everyone thought it tasted great! We didn’t add the raisins, though.I want to be like you when I grow up.
From,
Julia
P.S. I have your book called”Cooking rocks!”
02.05.08 @ 7:11 pm
Hi Rachael,
wanted to let you know that I have a 3yr old(going on 4) that she recognizes you anywhere since I’ve been watching 30 minutes meals for few years now. she’s like a mini Rachael that loves to carry everything in one trip. we call her rachael ray & also she pronounces refrigerator as rachaelrater. I hope one day we can make it to NY & go to your show. She would love to meet you.
02.12.08 @ 12:10 am
My 11-yr. old son is starting to have a real interest in cooking. It exites him, and he doesn’t even complain over clean-up! What can I do to nurture this motivation, helping him discover more about cooking?
Any suggestions? Thanks! Isabel
02.25.08 @ 7:03 pm
Just a quick note to say we love watching you as a family around dinner time. We try your recipes and they are measured around here by a thumbs up or thumbs down. While watching an episode for your turkey chili, chili burgers, you spoke about getting vegetables in the meal to get your kids to eat their veggies. My son promptly hollered to me in the other room, that now that is not one recipe I can make because you pre-warned him about the veggies. He said I wouldn’t be ablle to pull that one over him. We’ll keep watching!
03.02.08 @ 6:53 am
We love youuuuuuu…
:D:D
we love your food:P
03.18.08 @ 3:51 pm
Salve! Hi rachel, im nicko. I was hypnotizaed by ur show from the START! with the bubbly personality and beautiful smile! i watch always, and feel like i have know you when i watch ur show. like ur a part of the family! anyways, i was on the “Rachel ray sucks” website. What a bunch of dorks! cant they all get lives? anyways, dont let them get u down, and keep on cooking! Thanks a bunch,
Nick-o!
03.19.08 @ 10:35 am
Hey Rach,
I am only 13 and I watch your show whenever i can. I love it soo much. If I am sick or I have a vacation I watch your show. Last year when I went to Virginia I found your show and I loved it. I would really like to meet you. It would be soo awsome. I would also like to invite you to one of my cheerleading competitons if you had the time to come. LOVE YA, Alexandria.
03.22.08 @ 12:48 pm
Thanks for the great work you do! Your are inspiration to all of us!
03.31.08 @ 1:08 pm
Dear Ms.RaRa, Before I retired I was a teachi ng assistant at a school for children with special needs. We would do prep classes and learned what the tools were for working in the kitchen. Once a month we would prepair food for the entire class (12).We would choose a reciept,make a shopping list and check the circulars for bargens and then do the shopping.In between I gave them sewing lessons and we make aprpons and pot holders and napkins. It was a great way to teach math,reading and confidence. These skills are nolonger taught in Public Schools. Good for you and your staff for taking up the slack.
05.12.08 @ 5:24 pm
My daughter and I love to watch your show on Mondays which is my only day off. She recognized you had a haircut and immediately asked me if I cut you hair. Kids are too funny. Ever since watching your show she has been soo interested in cooking. Thank you for all you do for the kids! It’s really great. Jessica Wright
05.27.08 @ 8:00 pm
DEAR RACHEL,
I AM ONE OF YOUR AVID FOLLOWER HERE IN THE PHILS. I LOVE WATCHING YOUR SHOWS AND I DO LIKE TO BUY YOUR COOKWARE SET (THE ORANGE ONE FOR $149.95) MY PROBLEM IS DO YOU HAVE SHIPMENT HERE IN THE PHILS. I LOVE YOUR COOKWARE SO MUCH. THANKS A LOT. RUTH
05.29.08 @ 7:27 am
Hey Rechael
I am from South Africa and I love your show. Because of you I decided to study the cullinary arts and am strong on my way to becoming a cheff.
You are my hero Rechael and I love the way you are. Don’t ever change.
With Love
Stephen
06.04.08 @ 10:09 pm
hey rachel i just wanted to tell you that i love your show so much , and i have been watching it for about 1 year and a half,love you bye