Cat Cora FHM: MiniMart Chef?

By JULIETTE ROSSANT How is a girl to keep up with the competition? Take Cat Cora. She's got to keep up with her Food Network pal Rachael Ray. If Rachael starts her own magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Cat has to at least become executive chef for Bon Appetit magazine. If Rachael starts endorsing products, Cat has to endorse something, even if it's a garbage disposer. If Rachael gets her picture in FHM, Cat has to get her photo into -- Forbes? But when Rachael launches a new TV talk show, The Rachael Ray Show, complete with blessings from backer Oprah Winfrey, what's a girl to do? Bust out the mini-skirt and hit the mini-market, that's what! So, earlier this month, that's just what Cat did: fall in line right behind Rachael and pose for FHM. The operative word here is "fell," because Cat simply falls out of her top as she reaches down in her mini-skirt to pick up a food item in a mini-market. OK, the story is tongue-in-cheek, too: Cat sets out to cook a Fine Dining meal with ingredients from a Circle K. But, fun aside, where does the lowering to "common" food stop, and when do we find a little Food elevation? The Food Network has already shoved aside stalwarts like Sara Moulton: will they force the one women professional chef they are promoting to scrape and bow for ratings and celebrity, rather than focus on the "food" in the network's name.......? Or is this more a case of (forgive us) "cat out of the bag"? Whatever the case, these photos hardly match up with the grand gesture of Chefs for Humanity. Previous articles: Rossant on Rachael Ray's Competition Cat Cora Joins Bon Appetit St. Patrick's: Cat Takes Hat Cat Cora Talks Money to Forbes Cat Cora: Chefs for Humanity Results: White House Woman Chef Cat Cora, Anita Lo: Sexing Up Iron Chef America Profile: Cat Cora for White House Chef Cat Cora Wins on Iron Chef America Cat Cora: Iron Chef America's First Lady World AIDS Day II: Iron Chef Cat Cora [Chefs & Branding - complete] [Food Television - complete] Technorati Tags: superchefblog, Juliette Rossant, super chef, celebrities, chefs, food, restaurants, cooking, branding, cuisine, blogging, food blogging --> back to superchefblog