Martha Stewart Slams Rachael Ray
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Martha Stewart says Rachael Ray can't hold a candle to her in the kitchen.
In her first television interview since serving five months in prison in 2004 for lying to investigators about a well-timed stock trade, Stewart, 68, talks to ABC News' Nightline about rebuilding her brand -- and slams Ray, 41, one of her TV competitors.
"Well, to me, she professed that she could -- cannot bake," Stewart says of Ray in the interview, airing Thursday. "She -- just did a new cookbook which is just a re-edit of a lot of her old recipes. She -- and that's not good enough for me."
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When it comes to writing a book, Stewart says she want to publish something that "is a unique and lasting thing. Something that will really fulfill a need in someone's library." Ray, she says, "is different."
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Stewart says Ray is "more of an entertainer ... with her bubbly personality, than she is a teacher, like me. That's not what she's professing to be."
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Do Stewart's remarks make Ray mad?
"Why would it make me mad?" Ray asks. "Her skill set is far beyond mine. That's simply the reality of it."
Ray adds that "that doesn't mean that what I do isn't important too... I don't consider it needling. I really just think she's being honest. She does have a better skill set than I do when it comes to producing a beautiful, perfect, high-quality meal." Says Ray, "I'd rather eat Martha's than mine, too."
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219Ahhh well... Martha, Martha, Martha. This time it wasn't "A Good Thing." After watching her take an hour to make a marshmallow skewer for the campfire I opted out of a long time ago. She's been in La La Land for years so of course she'd be classless enough to criticize someone up and coming. She never even had consideration for her neighbors while running her show out of her home so why would she care about anything she says? A lot of comments talk about how she's an embittered old lady...NEWSFLASH:.....She was this way long before she got old.
Don't beleive what you see on tv, rachel ray is evil. I go every summer to a place where she did rachel rays tasty travels, and she didn't ever leave her cabin, and threw corn at people at a cookout saying "It wasn't prepared right"
can martha put her stuff in high class stores other than kmart,of course not,she is not what she wants to be,old woman,dragged down by her own selfishness, go rachel,martha can be sitting in a beautiful home filled with rich beautiful things but how does her heart feel? mabe empty? an old bitter rich woman?
Martha is a snob ,criminal, she thinks she is so classy, well kmart is the cheap peoples store, like the dollar tree
Screw snotty, old Martha. Why does she even care about what Rachael does? She knows she can do a much better job than her. No need to put someone down in order to make yourself feel good. Get over yourself. You're just mad that she's such a happy person. Jerk!
Martha is getting old and haggard, while Rachel is still in her prime and gorgeous. Martha has nothing on Rachel.
Martha may be right but she's not modest. There's that b*****ness about her. Rachel is modest, self-deprecating even and sincere. Martha repels while Rachel attracts.
OK heres the DISH !! I AM a professional baker who owned a Bakery in Brooklyn. One of my clients was from Rachael Ray's office, and i was out sourced to BAKE her desserts for certain meetings or events. Firstly the recipes WERE AWFUL! I ALWAYS has to tweak them so they would work! This always upset me because I am awesome at what I do and there was someone out there eating one of my baked goodies and it for the day was tagged rachael Ray! So if you are thinking to yourself I ate something of hers that was good once.... It was probably MINE! Martha is right! Im glad someone got to tell everyone what I have known for years. and as another FYI.... at a tasting Martha's assistant took ALL of my RED VELVET back with her for MARTHA to taste.... I hope you liked it!
Feeling a little bitter Martha?? A table for one...???
ok seriously, why should martha stewart care.. rachel didn't do anything to her, and it's a good thing too that she re-did some of her recipes.. martha just needs to go suck it up and retire..
Martha has become a bitter old women, its time for her to go. Who would you rather share dinner with,Martha or Rachael?
In all fairness, there are a couple of other things that make Rachael Ray pale in comparison to Martha Stewart. For example, possessing the skill to "shank someone in the yard" and being able to make "Big Judy's" eyes roll back in her head. Martha is a tool.
Wow--What a snotty slam on poor Racheal who deserved none of this-- and who also replied with such down to earth classiness. How many of us can relate more to RR in general -- unlike the latter person? Rachael's shows are common sense tasty great for the person who has 30 minutes to cook and can actually get all of the ingredients from a local market. Also she is so approachable and modest unlike Martha, who another pointed out, is such a narcissist as well as a wannabe patrician. Unbelievable.
Hahha Rachael Ray sucks. Martha has way more talent than she does. and who cares if she went to jail some one should call the police on rachel for not shutting up.
you know martha the jailbird seems to want to slam everyone that is better than can't she just shut her trap and leave other people
Does the dinner smell like Martha's cooking jealousy?
I've been a psychotherapist for 25 years and I think Martha just demonstrated her narcisistic personality disorder without any doubts. Sadly, there is no medication for this diagnosis. Go Rachel!!!!
As a psychotherapist I can easily say that Martha appears to have just shown quite well that she is a narcissistic personality. Unfortunately for her and the rest of the people of her viewing audience there is no medication for this disorder. Go Rachel!
SHAME ON YOU Martha Stewart for publicly critizing Rachael Ray on national television. It is a huge reflection on the type of person you've become. BITTER! One would think that you would be more concerned with restoring your own image after your recent criminal indulgence. Rachael Ray is not only refreshing and entertaining, her recipes are realistic!
Martha may have gone to college and worked on Wall Street and think herself way more professional and more of a teacher, but in this instance, Rachel Ray showed who has more class!!!! Keep up the good work Rachel! Most of us never wanted to be Martha Stewart-like anyways!