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Even if Rachel Ray calls new york city Back home, she’s not a big fan of the Big Apple.
The former Food Network star, who has homes in New York City as well as upstate New York and Italy, admitted that while her husband, John Cusimano, likes the hustle and bustle, she enjoys the quiet life in their Tuscan villa.
“My husband loves being in New York,” Ray said. our weekly magazine In a new interview. “And I tell him, ‘Hey, go as long as you want, stay as long as you want.’ When I have work, I come to New York or upstate New York, but I prefer Italy.”
“It’s quiet. The dog is much happier. She hates New York. Bella is not a New Yorker at all. So I spend as much time as possible with the dog,” she continued. [in Italy] As much as possible. She has a pool, she has 66 hectares to run around in, everything is very quiet, the air is very fresh, she has huge gardens and vineyards and olive trees and I love that way of life. ”
Rachael Ray has been spotted in New York City this week. (back grid)
Ray also chose Italy to celebrate his 20th wedding anniversary with Cusimano. wedding anniversary last month.
“We went to see some friends, [went] “I’m going to my favorite restaurants in Florence and Rome,” Ray told the magazine. “We live in Tuscany, so we can go back and forth between both places pretty quickly. So we just… it’s been really cold this year. We’ve been hosting parties of 60 to 100 people for 10 years, but this year it was just us. Two nights in Florence, two nights in Rome.”
In 2021, Ray revealed in the magazine “Rachel Ray in Season” that she had bought a house in Tuscany the previous year.
“I’m writing this just before going to Italy for the first time in three years,” she wrote in the magazine. people. “I loved it there and missed it. Both my mother’s family and John’s parents’ family are from there. My husband and I got married there, and three years ago we achieved a lifelong goal of buying property in Tuscany.”
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Rachael Ray and husband John Cusimano celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in September. (Getty Images)
When she and Cusimano bought the land, Cusimano called it a “war zone,” she said. There were two buildings there with no plumbing or electricity, and I remember him asking, “Honey…do you want to see the house?”
“But I fell in love with the fields and the scenery and was willing to pay the price to do it.” pay for the housewe were able to really, really make it ours,” she explained.
“In Tuscany, the air smells different than anywhere else on earth I’ve been,” Ray explained. “It’s sweet and filled with the aroma of agricultural wonders. Olive trees, vineyards, lush gardens, incredible landscapes and scenery… I was overwhelmed by its beauty and what I miss most is the air. When I first went there 20 years ago, I felt it the moment I touched the ground.”
Rachael Ray has homes in New York City, upstate New York, and Italy. (Getty Images)
In 2022, she starred in Limited Edition. reality series Called “Rachael Ray’s Italian Dream Home,” part of the renovation process is detailed. Last year, she began filming a new show, “Rachel Ray in Tuscany,” which focuses on Italian food.
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Ray seems to have no shortage of praise for Italy, and she said: new york post In April 2024, he talked about some of the horrors he experienced in New York City.
In one story, she talked about being robbed outside her apartment in Queens when she was young, and recalled, “He literally had a Glock in his hand and stuck it in my back, and I screamed so loud, I think I heard it in Jersey…I scared the flip out. And I think I scared him more than he scared me.”
Rachael Ray began her path to fame in the late ’90s when she appeared on a cooking segment on local television. (John Heller/Wire Image)
She added: “I sprayed him in the face with mace and he was not happy. In fact, I still feel really bad about it. I don’t think he would hurt me.”
Still, she said the robber was so angry that he came back a second time and pushed her into an alley, only to be chased away by a dog that lived in the building.
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“There were cockroaches in my apartment, but I stayed because I was really worried about the dog that lived there,” she said.
