- 09-17-2009 10:44 AM #1
Rachael Ray's Vocal Cords on the Mend
Rachael Ray's Vocal Cords on the Mend
Celeb Chef Ray Keeps Cooking After Voice Surgery
By RADHA CHITALE
ABC News Medical Unit
Sept. 17, 2009 —
"Everybody loves buffalo chicken!" Rachael Ray hollered as she dished up chicken wings, lasagna and pizza on Tuesday's episode of "Good Morning America."
The celebrity chef and talk show host seems to have lost none of her trademark vocal vigor despite minor surgery in July to remove a benign cyst growing on one of her vocal cords.
Ray's voice had been weakening to the point where, according to her publicist, Charlie Dougiello, she would end the work week barely able to speak.
Ray was scheduled to have the cyst removed last December but opted to try vocal therapy, hoping the cyst would disappear without surgery.
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- 09-17-2009 10:46 AM #2
- 09-17-2009 12:42 PM #3Crazy Ol' Southern Lady
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Wonder if she's still smoking?
Most of all, cook from the heart, and you’ll never be lonely when the dinner bell rings! - Chef Robert Irvin
- 09-17-2009 12:57 PM #4
Her publicist keeps saying she doesn't. But they said that even when she was photographed with a cigarette in her hand. Paula smokes and admits it, but I don't think I have ever seen a photo of her with a cigarette in her hand.
I always find it fascinating how the smokers on Hell's kitchen do in the taste test. Sometimes they aren't even close.
- 09-17-2009 01:05 PM #5Crazy Ol' Southern Lady
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Yea... I've heard that smoking really kills the taste buds and that's why some people use it as a "diet aid." Chemo does a number on the ol' taste buds too, for it kills off fast growing white blood cells which your tongue and mouth has loads of. That can screw up your taste something bad.
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- 09-17-2009 01:09 PM #6
My husband has a friend at work that quit smoking a while back and he says he is amazed how different things taste now. I guess that's why a lot of people put on weight when they quit, they realize how much they were missing.

- 09-17-2009 01:17 PM #7Crazy Ol' Southern Lady
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One of my employees at work was the same way. She got pneumonia, was put into the hospital and wasn't allowed to smoke. So, she went "cold turkey" and didn't start smoking again after she left the hospital. She talked about how food tasted so much better and that she didn't realized how much smoking smelled things up. I guess giving up smoking not only improves your taste, but your sense of smell too.
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- 09-17-2009 01:32 PM #8
It's probably that the smell it's self masks the flavor. Remember Alton has told us the way food smells helps us taste different things.

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