49-year-old Rachael Ray, a quintessential chef, is an American television personality, business mogul, celebrity cook, and author. Born as Rachael Domenica Ray, on August 25, 1968, in sparsely inhabited Glens Falls, a city in Warren County in New York in the United States, Rachael was raised in Lake Georgia, Southeastern region of the United States.

As an American citizen, Ray has mixed ethnic backgrounds, with his mother Elsa Providenza Scuderi having Italian ancestry while her father James Claude Ray had French, Scottish and Welsh origin and nationalities. Ray’s family travelled to Lake George when she was eight years old. Ray’s Educational history has been largely overshadowed by her career in cooking. However, she began her study at Lake George Junior-Senior High School before she later attended Pace University where she completed her degree education.

Career Influence

Clearly, Rachael has a robust biography that traverses a number of unique and standout professions. Ray’s choice of dabbling into culinary business was largely informed by her family’s infectious success. From early childhood, Ray was lucky to have been surrounded by family members who have found profound pleasure ad hit in investing in restaurant business. Hence, her choice — and not her success though — in the food industry could be seen as a natural one.

Particularly, her mother managed restaurants in New York's Capital Region, which also include Howard Johnson's restaurant, which pulled many of the region’s entertainers around. Ray was hugely influenced by Scuderi and James’ interest in food business, with the duo owning three restaurants on Cape Cod, MA. In fact, Scuderi was always bringing her three young kids, Maria, Rachael, and Manny with sitters to work.

So, all of these experiences formed the background upon which the later to flourish Rachael founded her interest. Famous for her culinary skills and expertise, Rachael has been involved in a number of magazines and cooking shows across the States. Besides, she has to her name, three Food Network series attributed to her name such as 30-minute meals, Rachael Ray’s Tasty Travels and $40 a Day.

Personal life

Rachael got married to lawyer John Cusimano in Italy in 2005, with both professing Catholicism. In terms of collective investment as a couple, the yet-to-have-child duo have homes in Lake Luzerne, New York, and Manhattan's Greenwich Village. She is fond of spending a lot of her free time at her cottage in the Adirondacks with her husband & her darling dog pet, Isaboo. She is said to spend circa $80,000 on a Private Jet for the dog.

Achievement and Net Worth

· Rachael’s ‘30 minutes meal’ show received Emmy award for ‘Outstanding Service Show’ of the year in 2006.

· Her TV shows have also been recognized, winning three ‘Daytime Emmy Awards’ that same years

· her show ‘Every Day with Rachael Ray’ was ranked the best ‘Launch of the year’ by Advertising Age & by Advertising Week

· Rachael won Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment

· She also received ‘Favourite TV Chef’S People choice award in 2011.

Rachael is believed to have acquired a total net worth of $75 million, and from that has founded a non-profit organization which she named Yum-O! The organization is focused at helping to educate people about the significance of good diet and nutrition.