Anyone who knows me well, is hip to the fact that I am a cooking show junkie. I can watch the Food Network all afternoon and never once turn the channel. I find cooking so fascinating, almost to the point where I want to drop this great life I have and enroll in a culinary arts school. But then, as I'm daydreaming about being a chef, I envision myself stuck working at Denny's, flinging Grand Slam Breakfasts to drunk 20 somethings at 3AM.

So over the years I have watched all the great shows, Iron Chef, Emeril Live/Essence of Emeril, The Naked Chef, Food 911, etc, but none of these show compare to my two favorites, which just so happens to be hosted by two hotties. I'm talking about Nigella Bites (Nigella Lawson) and 30 Minute Meals/$40 a Day (Rachel Ray).

Nigella has really skyrocketed in the cooking show world. This is primarily due to her sexy Brittish accent and highly stylized show, where the food is good and the cinematography is even better. I would personally describe her cooking style as gourmet comfort food. She makes things ranging from fried peanut butter sandwiches for the kids to homemade ice cream to salmon fishcakes. Actually, everything I have seen her prepare looks damn good and I honestly find myself salivating at some points while watching the show but that's not always from the food. Nigella is currently 44 years old, but her looks and spunk make her seem to be in her mid 30s at the latest. Normally she is wearing tight black sweaters or tops which exentuate her ample chest. I saw her on Leno one time and during a cooking segment, she was wearing a low cut blowse. It was funny to watch the obviously sexually deprived Jay Leno check out her rack, over and over again. Nigella will go down as one of my favorite all time hunnies, but my current favorite broad out there is another cooking show host named Rachel Ray.

Rachel is a spunky little chic. And while she nor her show is as polished as Nigella's, her practicle recipies and helpful ideas brighten up my afternoons. I can barely make toast, but I can appreciate a cooking shortcut or a new way to approach the preparation of certain foods. Speaking of aproach, if I even see this woman on the street, I am going to ask her to join me in unholy matrimony. Imagine having someone this damn good looking who can cook her little heart shaped arse off. Also what makes Rachael appealing is the fact that I think I could get her. I was leafing through one of her books at the mall and I found a pic of her husband. Let's just say that he had a mullet and they didn't look very good in the picture together.

As far as her cooking show goes, the only one I currently watch is called 30 Minute Meals. It's fun to listen to her because like I said, she isn't polished and her style is a little more down to earth. She always says things like, "oh, this smells sooo good, mmm" and "ooh, how good does this look?. Another funny thing to watch is the fact that since she needs to get this meal done in 30 minutes, she actually talks and moves very fast, so sometimes she says the wrong thing or slips up her words, now that's great stuff.

But, what really clinched my new found love for her was during one afternoon, I came home from work and starting surfing the Web. I was looking around and BAM! I came across pics that she did for FHM. Imagine that, here's a broad I have been in love with for a long time, thinking that nobody else has really noticed her and then all of the sudden, here are great half nude pics of her. She is such a hottie

There are several other decent looking chics hosting cooking shows these days including some Italian chic on the Food Network, but none come close to the looks and appeal of Rachel Ray and Nigella Lawson.