On the fridge, pictures of Rachael’s pit bull Isaboo and Guy Fieri from a photo booth. She picked out a subway sign because “I love being from New York.” (
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After six years and more than 1,000 shows, Rachael Ray was ready to move.
Over the summer, the always-happy TV chef abandoned her studios on West 44th Street and moved two miles downtown to Chelsea — into the old studios once occupied by Martha Stewart.
The two chefs have been denying for years reports that they are feuding — but that didn’t stop an unnamed source from calling Page Six in May to say that Ray had ordered her staff to burn sage in the West 26th Street studio, a ancient ritual for driving evil spirits out of a house, before renovations began.
“There was never an exorcism,” Ray says with her trademark laugh — adding in the mock-serious announcer’s voice; “No sage was burned in the making of this studio.”
The move had a dual purpose, she says.
“We wanted to go HD, and it would have cost so much at the place we were in, that it made sense to move,” she said.
More important, says Ray, was the desire for a change of scene.
“You know what it’s like — you paint one wall in your house and it makes you indescribably happy,” she explains.
“This is like redoing your whole kitchen. It just makes my life incredibly easier.”
The new season of Ray’s show starts next Monday, 10 a.m. on Ch. 7.