"Viva Daisy!" Rachael Ray, Daisy Martinez Cooking Up New Latino Food Show

Rachael Ray is giving Food Network fans a taste of the Latino kitchen.

Ray is producing a new show for the network starring actress and cookbook author Daisy Martinez. The weekly "Viva Daisy!" premieres Saturday for a six-week run. The show is the network's second focused on Latino foods, joining Ingrid Hoffman's "Simply Delicioso."

Martinez previously hosted public television's Hispanic foods-focused "Daisy Cooks." The new show will be the first from Ray's production company, Watch Entertainment, that doesn't feature Ray.

The collaboration began after Ray and Martinez bonded while participating in a panel discussion together. Ray says she knew immediately she wanted to give Martinez a bigger platform from which to talk about Latino foods.

"She can't tell you about a recipe without telling you why you would want to make it," Ray said in a telephone interview. "Which is so much more important to me than learning a technique."

Martinez said she hopes to use the show to get people excited about the diversity of Latino food. And while she won't limit herself to Ray's signature 30-minute meals, Martinez says her cooking is always user-friendly.

"It's really going to be a peek into my life, into my home, into my kitchen," she said. "I'm going to be sharing my family with you, sharing meals that we have."

Comments

[Jessegirl]

She is getting fatter. Mabey she can make her meals a bit healthier.
Lower the sodium, and cut out the fat content a little. A lot of women watch her.
I do enjoy her magazine, I just always adjust the recipes of hers because I don't
want my butt to explode.

[happycat]

I have watched her show a couple of times and have been appalled by the amount of c rap that is in her recipes. She is a huge fan of canned and processed foods. Even when she makes a so called healthy recipe it is still loaded with sodium and fat. People would be better off skipping her show and just eating a box of Velveeta with a side of bacon.

[Nikola Tesla]

Daisy Rocks!

[kingmiller]

RR's cooking is worse than fingernails on a blackboard!

[Topfeeder]

RR's voice is worse than fingernails on a blackboard.

[tedmore123]

Nightmare scenario: Denise Austin marries Billy Mays and they have a threesome with Rachel Ray...imagine the offspring....don't go there !!!

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

There must be a mute button somewhere.Ugh.

[TJCole]

How much instruction do you need cooking up rice beans chicken and tomato sauce..

There was a really expensive great Mexican restaurant in Montclair NJ everyone loved, their secret was the tomato sauce was not Mexican but Italian which is why it tasted so good and they are so successful..

[Zillacabra]

Italian tomato sauce was the secret ingredient? This, my friend, is why all Mexican restaurants in NJ are bad (I should know, I live there and have eaten at places like Mexicali Rose - my wife and I make our own Mexican food at home).

There is much, much more to true, traditional Mexican cooking than rice, beans, chicken and tomato sauce (you forgot the quintessential Americanized ingredient, lots of cheese). Look up the recipe for a true mole Poblano (or the various regional and even familial variations), and you'll see how complicated it can be. Better yet, try finding some birria de chiva (well, if you're in NJ you can't). Of course, I doubt anything related with Rachel Ray will ever examine real Mexican cooking because canned and frozen ingredients don't belong in authentic Mexican recipes.

[AliLiz]

Am I the only one who doesn't like Rachel Ray any more? I really thought she had something to say in the beginning , but now she is all fluff and empty.

Oprah supported her, so I guess she'll go on and on.

[beanchihuahua]

Nope. I still will watch her when she was "genuine" on 30 minute meals before she started wearing all that goofy makeup and discovered new ways to scrunch her face. She is more of a sellout than anything right now.

[ena]

Did you read the article? The show is 'Viva Daisy!' hosted by Daisy Martinez and she is absolutely fabulous.

RR is producing the show which shows she's got great business sense.

[happycat]

I cannot stand Rachel Ray. For one thing she needs to attend a proper culinary school, for another she is annoying and needs to let her guests speak.

[MaximMaximus]

As the Cooking channel(s) are getting bigger and bigger so does the American people. Their definition of "little bit of oil/butter or fat in general" and their definition of a "normal serving" is calibrated for the consumption of gorillas I suppose.

[thebigthinker]

I cannot stand her show - the most annoying thing on TV. And anywhere you go - Drs office, beauty salon, spa, store - the stupid show is on. Let's make Rachel"s' tomato sauce - take canned tomato sauce and add papers to it - here you go. Let's make Rachel's mustard sauce - take Dijon mustard and add garlic to it - yakh. Let's feed the family for $10 for dinner for 4 - 1 lb of broccoli, 4 chicken thighs and 1 lb of spaghetti - yakh, yakh and yakh. Horrific.

[ena]

Daisy cooks with fresh ingredients and unlike Rachel she is a trained chef.

[ofcoursejesusisblack]

Why is this plain Jane Racheal Ray so famous?

[Nikola Tesla]

meOW!

[RRonin]

Ms Martinez is CALIENTE!

[G-guy]

TI agree. That's where calling all of this "Spanish" food is not accurate.
Unlike Italian, for example, it's not really exclusive to one ethnic group.

[avvocato]

Italian cooking is not monolithic.
Abruzzese cooking is as different from Sicilian as is different from Piemontese as is different from Pugliese as is different from Toscana as is different from Venetian, etc etc

[ECB]

How do you say who gives a flying FU*K in Spanish ?

[Zillacabra]

Me vale madre.

[Nikola Tesla]

Chupa mi verga, puto?

[unfettered]

Finally!
i adore Daisy.
She makes you want to be where she is.
I love that.

[brooklyncitizen]

Eyes rolling.

Well I don't have a TV or watch any of these shows but exactly what kind of "Spanish/ Latina" food is being prepared? Mexican? Brazilian? South American? Dominican? Guatemalan?Columbian?Big big differences .

This "Latin" label is so inadequate it's like describing European cooking as if that even begins to convey all the different nationalities.

[yoli647]

I think it will be Puerto Rican dishes, this is what she cooks on her show, since Daisy is Puerto Rican.

[G-guy]

5 books
3 shows
a magazine. WOW

What have we done?

Operated on the many hearts that required emergency bypass surgery,
primarily due to the excessive eating of quick fix cholesterol-ridden slop.

[yoli647]

Muchas gracias, Daisy and Rachael, I am puerto rican and I watched Daisy on her show, and I love the way she cooks the Puerto Rican dishes. Welcome, Daisy. Looking forward to the new show. Delicioso!!!