Rachael Ray

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: RR Sent: Monday, May 6, 2013 1:32pm Subject: Ramen in Wicker Park… and a Brewpub Dear RR - I know that you and I both love a good, hot bowl of soup on a cold day or night, but me… ramen is my jam! I’m not a snob about it, but I sure do love a flavorful broth with great noodles! Oiistar is a new place in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, not far from my apartment. [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: RR Sent: Wednesday, April 3, 2012 11:57am Subject: Philly Strikes Again Hey Rach - On our last trip of 2012 to Philly, I couldn’t help but fit in a few more spots. From the airport, it was straight to Reading Terminal Market for some beef jerky. I know you’ve shot here for your show, and I really enjoy this market as well - there really is something for everyone. On this visit, I discovered a little meat market [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: RR Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:03am Subject: LES, NYC Hey RR - I know that you have been here many, many, many times before (based on my recommendation, thank you very much), but I thought, why not share it with the peeps who come to your site? As you know, Yunnan Kitchen is a newish Chinese restaurant on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and it’s awesome! When I went this most recent time, I sat at [...]...

Have you ever wished that when you went out to dinner, or visited a new town, you knew where to find a restaurant that served healthy food? Well that’s the information that the Clean Plates website provides, and now they’ve published The Clean Plates Cookbook, full of healthy recipes — many of which are contributed by their favorite restaurant chefs. Above: Kale Salad recipe, by chef Hadley Schmitt of New York’s Northern Spy Food Co. restaurant, from The Clean Plates Cookbook Most healthy cookbooks have an outlook on eating that relies on one exclusive theory, such as veganism, raw food, the Paleo diet, etc. But the author of The Clean Plates Cookbook, Jared Koch, is a nutritionist, and he has a different [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: RR Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:19pm Subject: Wildcat Country Food - Tucson, AZ Hi Rachael - I was recently in Arizona - Tucson to be exact - for a good friend’s wedding. I haven’t really spent much time there besides driving through on my way from Miami to L.A., so I didn’t know what to expect, food-wise at least. We’ve known our friends for about eight years, so I’ve been hearing about all of their hometown favorites [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: Rachael Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2012 11:15am Subject: Vetri’s Italian Gastropub (Philly) Hey Rach - I just got back from Philly after your last QVC appearance. The night before I was there, I ate at Marc Vetri’s newest restaurant, alla SPINA. They say it’s their version of an Italian gastropub. It was a pretty cool concept, but very casual compared to some of his others. We started with the Shaved Vegetables with Bagna [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: Rachael Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:00pm Subject: Two DC Chefs Give Their Spin on American Cuisine Hey Rachael- I recently got back from a quick in-and-out day trip to Washington, DC. With a little time to spare between meetings on the front end and back end, take a wild guess what I did. Yep, I ate! On arrival, I headed to Chef Michel Richard’s Central. Central is a fantastic bistro-style restaurant that is [...]...

Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences! From: Kappy To: Rachael Sent: Monday, August 6, 2012 2:02pm Subject: Best Rooftop View in Chicago Hey RR - Remember that restaurant we went to last time you were in Chicago, Perennial Virant? It’s that one where mixologist Erin Hayes made us some crafty cocktails… Anyway, their rooftop bar just opened and the view is insane. I know that they gave you a sneak peek when it was a construction zone, but this place is madness. [...]...

…Half the fun of discovering a new restaurant is sharing it with people you know will enjoy it. As Rachael Ray’s resident restaurant guru, here’s an inside look at what I report back to Rach about some of my favorite restaurant finds and food experiences!… From: Kappy To: RR Sent: Sunday, January 7, 2012 11:45am Subject: BBQ with Robert Duvall Hey Rach, Well, I didn’t really have BBQ with him, but you have to hear about this insane experience I had. I was in Austin at a friend’s house over New Year’s. I’ve done a lot of the BBQ circuit there…you know, Stubb’s, Iron Works, Salt Lick, Rudy’s, and the rest, but there was one outstanding place I heard about a few years back. It’s called [...]...