Rachael Ray is one busy woman. In addition to her Food Network series 30 Minute Meals, her syndicated daytime talk show Rachael Ray, her magazine and cooking books, she has just signed on for another gig. The newest series will be called Rachael’s Vacation.

Last weekend, Salon featured a story about chipper celebrity cooking-show host Rachael Ray and her polarizing effect on the Food Network-watching masses; the piece was titled "Rachael Ray, my dinner hooker." In the piec

The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) are a self-governing parliamentary democracy in free association with New Zealand. The fifteen small islands in this South Pacific Ocean country have a total land area of 240 square kilometres (92.7 sq mi), but the Cook Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) covers 1.8 million square kilometres (0.7 million sq mi) of ocean.The main population centres are on the island of Rarotonga (c.10,000), where there is an international airport. There is also a much larger population of Cook Islanders in New Zealand, particularly the North Island; in the 2006 census, 58,008 self-identified as being of ethnic Cook Island Māori descent.With over 90,000 visitors travelling to the islands in 2006, tourism is the country's number one industry, and the leading element of the economy, far ahead of offshore banking, pearls, marine and fruit exports.Defence is the responsibility of New Zealand, in consultation with the Cook Islands and at its request. In recent times, the Cook Islands has adopted an increasingly independent foreign policy.