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KING: You do one thing in one and one in another? |
RAY: Depends on people's schedules. We try to accommodate, and that's not just celebrities. Sometimes moms or dads or today we had fat pets on, we care about the pets. When can the pet come to the show? So we go in and out of a lot of different outfits. But usually it's the equivalent of about three shows a day. That's... |
KING: Are you ever confused as to what show you are in? |
RAY: Hmm, not so much. I mean, they all now really thankfully for me feel like a home away from home. You know? We have done over 600-something 30-minute meals and I look forward to the same group of people every day that I go there. |
Now on this show, we did 180 in our first season and we're 20- something into the next season. I look forward to seeing those people. So I know by looking at the faces of those around me where I am, but when I wake up in the morning, I can be confused. And especially during the summer when I have to do the travel show,... |
KING: Did you go to, by the way, Oprah's party for Barack Obama? |
RAY: No. We were here working. |
KING: Were you invited? |
RAY: I think she knew that we were ready for the season. We had a brief e-mail chat and good will and good cheer when she was here taping for her show. |
KING: Do you think her endorsement is going to help him? |
RAY: I couldn't see how it could be bad for anybody. |
KING: Yeah. |
RAY: You know? I mean, how could that be a bad thing? |
KING: It hasn't been bad for you. |
RAY: Good gravy, no, absolutely not. She's always been such a -- she's a -- just this beacon and she is just this really cool, fun person and it is so neat that that can live in one person. You can be this icon and still be a really good girlfriend. |
She told me before I started the show, be yourself, be true to yourself. And I did. She told when I was thinking about starting the Yum-O! thing, she said you have to give back to the world in the way that makes sense for you and as a vehicle, use something that's true to you, that's important to you and I did. She giv... |
KING: Rachael Ray is our guest, her syndicated show is in its second season, a roaring success. We'll be right back. |
RAY: Come on. Like I'm saying -- you got this going on. |
OPRAH WINFREY, TALK SHOW HOST: It's a new show, come on. |
RAY: Who cares? |
Once you get the chicken cutlets counted out, salt and pepper it on both sides. |
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm having trouble with the eight. |
RAY: Italian seasoning in there. |
MCGRAW: Are you Italian? Is it Rachael Ray-ota or what? |
RAY: So it's season two. Yay! And then you whisk in some chicken stock. I never in a million years thought I'd look over and see Teri Hatcher in my refrigerator. |
TERI HATCHER, ACTRESS: Now, what did you really see? |
RAY: Right, right, right. |
You have the skinny jeans on. So you brought in some of your old -- |
RAY: What size were those? |
BERTINELLI: These are fourteens, I believe. |
RAY: Back in the day we set our bras on fire, it was very liberating. Let's set your pants on fire. See what it does for you. |
They're gone. |
KING: We're back. I see Dr. Phil, who will be here by the way on Friday night was with you yesterday, right? |
RAY: And Robin, yes, they both came in. They're coming up in some upcoming shows. He is a great host but man, isn't he a great guest? |
KING: Did he cook? |
RAY: He's just so much fun. He didn't cook this time. We got him out of the kitchen this time. He cooked last night. He's a very good eater, but not so much with the cook. |
KING: A guest who's been with us frequently came to you recently, Bill Clinton. What was that like? |
RAY: It was huge. That was the day we launched Yum-O! The Yum- O! organization has three promises. |
KING: Explain Yum-O! You've mentioned it a few times. |
RAY: It has three promises. We try and teach kids and their families how to cook, healthy, fun and affordable meals. And then we try to feed hungry American children to just get rid of hunger among American kids. and then we try to fund -- we want to offer a scholarship program for kids in public schools so that they c... |
So it's got three layers to it. And we partnered up with President Clinton's Alliance for Healthier Generation specifically on our cook level and our awareness level to try to get kids really excited about making healthy food fun for them. |
And, get their families excited about it because it can be affordable and accessible. And the Alliance for Healthier Generation, that's what they're trying to do, lower the child obesity and lower the diabetes rate. But it lives in diets with the kids. The kids have to be psyched about it. You know? |
KING: No one knows more about it than Clinton on childhood obesity, unbelievable. |
RAY: And President Clinton is so fabulous. But he talks -- we had a number of young people there that day. When he talks to a child with the same respect that he gives an adult or a dignitary, it is wonderful to watch. He really connects and that was so moving for us to have him partner with us on that. |
But you know what was most memorable that day? Was a mother who sat in the front row, she's a nighttime nurse. She works the night shift. Her husband, truck driver during the day. They have two teenage daughters. She knows she's a good mom, she knows the dad is good. She has always felt like a bad mom in one way, she c... |
She felt this huge guilt about it. And we made a simple, easy, easy meal that she could roll over into two other meals. And she was so grateful with this little bit of information about how to make her kids' food and the girls were there and they said we would eat that. She was doing it and stirring it and cutting and ... |
KING: Where did Yum-O! come from? |
RAY: It's the word that when little kids see me in the street or they come to a book signing and see me, Rachael Ray, Yum-O! |
KING: Didn't you have to say it first? |
RAY: It's a -- it's an ism of mine. |
KING: From childhood? |
RAY: No. I think it came from working at Food Network. I was tasting stuff and would just talk to myself alone. |
KING: And say Yum-O! |
RAY: And it was yum combined with oh my gosh. |
KING: Rachael Ray is our guest, back with more in a couple of moments. |
One of those moments will be spent going to Iraq where Anderson Cooper stand by. He will host "A.C. 360" at the top of the hour. Anderson, what is up? |
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Larry. We are going to actually start tonight with breaking news hitting close to home. A dangerous storm off the coast of Texas, Humberto could be a hurricane before it hits land tonight. Tonight, we're going to have the latest information just in from the National Hurricane Center. |
Also tonight, America's top general floated a plan when he spoke to Congress this week -- 30,000 soldiers home by next summer. Is it enough, however? Leading members of Congress seem to want more, be they Democrat or Republican. They're wondering aloud today when will the war end? How will the war end? |
Tonight I will ask General Petraeus himself for his reaction. He's on the program. Also, the prime minister of Iraq is on the program, Nouri al-Maliki. Live from Baghdad at the top of the hour, Larry. |
KING: Quite a lineup, coming up at 10 Eastern, 7 Pacific. And as we go to break, a little test. How well do you know Rachael Ray? Here's the question. One of Rachel's favorite ingredients is something she called EVOO. What is EVOO? Is it onions - A, onions, B, vinegar or C, oil? The answer and more with Rachael Ray whe... |
Coming up on LARRY KING LIVE tomorrow night, the president addresses the nation on Iraq at 9:00. We'll have immediate reaction with White House candidates Barack Obama, John McCain and John Edwards. |
And then Friday night, Dr. Phil, Emmy host Ryan Seacrest and more. All the rest of this week on LARRY KING LIVE. |
RAY: Put a little EVOO in the bottom for the burgers. A little EVOO. I'm going to wipe the pan out and heat up a little more EVOO. |
KING: OK, A, vinegar, B, onions, C, oil? What is EVOO? |
RAY: Extra virgin olive oil. |
KING: And why have you initialed it? |
RAY: Because for all of those years and we continue on Food Network, I'm alone talking to my vegetables and I just got tired of saying extra virgin olive oil over and over and over. I abbreviated it for myself and became EVOO. |
KING: What is extra virgin olive oil? |
RAY: How did they check? How would you know? |
KING: Ordinary virgin olive oil? |
RAY: It hasn't been filtered. But frankly, the EVOO that's in the grocery stores, it doesn't have a lot of stuff floating around in it so it can come to a high cooking temperature. And grocery store quality, I always say just buy the cheapest and that will be fine to cook with. |
KING: And is it healthy? |
RAY: Absolutely. Gives you a shiny coat as we say. |
KING: Let's take a call for Rachael Ray. New Bern, North Carolina, hello. |
RAY: Hello. |
CALLER: Hi, Rachael. |
RAY: Hi honey, how are you? CALLER: Good. I recently got married this Saturday. |
RAY: Congratulations. |
CALLER: And I want to know -- thank you very much. I want to know how you and John keep the fire in your relationship regardless of what the tabloids say. |
RAY: Did you marry somebody you like hanging out with? Is he your friend? Seriously, that's the way you do it. You marry somebody you're friends with bigger than everything else. I mean, John -- I fell in love with his -- his look. The first night I saw him, but I think the reason I married him is because he is a good ... |
And you know, he doesn't mind -- he doesn't mind eating dinner at 10:00 at night. I mean, we don't have all of the time I'm sure he would like us to together, down time or alone time. |
He lives by the schedule that our life demands and he makes it easy for me to come home and still have the life I want and need. I really have to go home at night and make dinner and chat and have a glass of wine or I don't feel like I'm whole. |
I don't feel like I got anything out of my day, so John eats a little later than he would like and sits up and chats with me, too. And you know, my mom, too. She'll get up - she likes to go to bed, early bed, early rise. She'll get up literally in the middle of the night if I can't sleep or have a great recipe idea. |
And I have this wonderful network behind me that really supports my pursuit of several jobs at once. And if you married somebody that you really love, he'll -- he should be like breathing to you. You are a newlywed. He should be like breathing in and out. |
KING: We have an e-mail from Erika in Van Nuys, California. How do you chop everything so finely? How can I learn to chop that? |
RAY: I chop everything completely wrong compared to -- like a chef. You know? A chef will peel an onion, leave the root on, be able to cut into it a whole bunch of different ways. I hack it in half, make it flat, so I can run through it quickly. And my onion hack is the way I can chop an onion quick. |
So I think you need to start with a big cutting board so you have move to groove. A very sharp, good quality knife. Keep this hand, keep your nubbers all tucked in. Keep the knife titled a little away from you and then keep chopping until you find a way that works for you best. |
KING: I like chopping a lot. I like it chopped fine. |
RAY: I love to chop, too. But you have to find your own groove. You have to find your own rhythm. |
KING: We'll be back with our remaining moments and another call for Rachael Ray right after these words. Don't go away. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) |
CROWD: I want to rock and roll all night. |
RAY: There's nuts everywhere! So I say, -- |
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did I just say stand by? |
RAY: Taping probably the equivalent of two and a half, three shows today so I'm going to run you over, my friend. |
KING: A couple more things. You are searching for a new cooking star? |
RAY: This is so cool. I tell people all the time my life is just this happy accident and that anybody could be a Rachael Ray so that was the idea that we had. |
Let's turn somebody into their own Rachael Ray. So we asked America, you think you can cook - as long as you're not a pro chef, you can enter. You send us your tapes. We're going to take the top peeps and bring them in and let them cook and we're going to give them a bunch of simple challenges. |
And the winner is going to get a page in the magazine, in the "Every Day with Rachael Ray" magazine to share their recipes with the country and they're going to get the "What's for dinner segment" of my show. I'll be their sous chef. They can boss me around. And we're going to send them away to a cooking school vacatio... |
KING: You told me during a break, you can't make coffee? |
RAY: I'm not allowed to touch the coffee maker. Yeah, I'm bad with the coffee -- very, very bad. |
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