Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring (episodic) programs about food and cooking. The Food Network has keyed into something. Just put up hot chicks and people will watch. Here are the 7 hottest women in food Television.

1. Rachael Ray

Rachael Domenica Ray was born on August 25, 1968 in Glens Falls, New York and Rachael Ray is a television personality and author. She hosts the syndicated talk/lifestyle program Rachael Ray and two Food Network series, 30 Minute Meals and Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels. Ray has also written a series of cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2006.

Ray teaches simple recipes that she claims can be prepared in 30 minutes or less, although critics claim that her thirty minute concept does not fully account for preparation times and many featured meals cannot be completed within half an hour. Ray says her Sicilian maternal grandfather, Emmanuel Scuderi, and her Cajun ancestry serve as a strong influence on her cooking. She uses ingredients such as garlic and chicken stock as simple ways to boost flavors and uses fresh herbs whenever possible. On March 18, 2007, Food Network debuted a Rachael Ray episode of its special Chefography series, on which she stated that "the worst day of life" was "Iron Chef America," admitting to being anxious about it weeks before she was set to appear. Rachael Ray Food Television Biography Click Here.

2. Aida Mollenkamp

Aida Mollenkamp is a Food Network personality and food writer. Her first Food Network series, the interactive program Ask Aida, began airing on August 2, 2008. Mollenkamp received a B.S. in hospitality management from Cornell University. Following this, she worked as a hotel and restaurant consultant at Ernst & Young, then moved to Europe, living between Florence, Italy and Paris, France for two years. She received a Grand Diplôme from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris in 2004.

Following her return to the United States, she worked at several different restaurants and hotels in the United States. Cooking expert Aida Mollenkamp prepares delicious dishes while solving Food Network viewers' culinary conundrums on her interactive cooking show, Ask Aida. From recipe and ingredient issues to advice on kitchen machinery and tools, Aida will even offer guidance for impromptu parties, feeding a crowd, make-ahead dishes and time-saving tips. Aida Mollenkamp Food Television Biography Click Here.

3. Ingrid Hoffman

Ingrid Hoffmann was born on September 9, 1965 and Ingrid Hoffmann is an American television personality and restaurateur, currently hosting the Food Network series Simply Delicioso and the Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show, Delicioso, on Galavisión. Her cookbook, Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist is scheduled for publication on February 8, 2008 by Clarkson Potter.

Ingrid Hoffmann makes every meal Simply Delicioso with her practical approach to easy, Latin inspired dishes. Shot in her hometown of Miami Beach, each episode features lively menus, clever tips and time-saving shortcuts to help you create American favorites with bold and surprising Latin accents.After hosting a cooking segment on a Miami-area TV show in 2002, Hoffmann was offered a biweekly segment on the Spanish-language morning show Despierta America. Ingrid Hoffman Food Television Biography Click Here.

4. Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee Christiansen was born on July 3, 1966 in Sumner, Washington. She is an American television chef and author. Lee is best-known for her "Semi-Homemade" cooking concept. She describes the philosophy as "70% store-bought/ready-made products accompanied by 30% fresh and creative touches, allowing you to take 100% of the credit.

Semi-Homemade Cooking with Sandra Lee premiered on the Food Network in 2003. The program is taped in a custom-built studio in Brooklyn, New York. Each episode contains an arts and crafts element, in which Lee decorates the table setting in accordance with the theme of the meal that she just prepared. Lee's first cookbooks, Semi-Homemade Cooking and Semi-Homemade Desserts were originally printed by Talk Miramax, but are now distributed by Meredith Corporation. She has also released Semi-Homemade Cooking 2, along with revised editions of her first two cookbooks. Sandra Lee Food Television Biography Click Here.

5. Giada DeLaurentiis

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis was born August 22 on 1970 and she is an Italian American chef, writer, television personality and the current host of the Food Network programs Everyday Italian, Behind the Bash, Giada's Weekend Getaways, Giada in Paradise and Giada at Home. De Laurentiis is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods. After returning to the United States, she became a professional chef working in several Los Angeles restaurants, notably the Wolfgang Puck-owned Spago. She later worked as a food stylist, and was contacted by Food Network after styling a piece in Food & Wine Magazine in 2002.

Her cooking program, Everyday Italian, has been broadcast on Food Network since 2003. On her Chefography , she admitted that she never wanted to be in her "family business" of show business. She felt very uncomfortable in front of the camera when she first began hosting Everyday Italian, but has since become more relaxed and open on air. When the program first aired, Food Network received emails accusing the network of hiring a model or actress pretending to cook instead of a real chef. In 2008, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host. Giada DeLaurentiis Food Television Biography Click Here.

6. Cat Cora

Catherine 'Cat' Cora was born on January 1 1968 in Jackson, Mississippi. She is an American professional chef best known for her featured role as an "Iron Chef" on the Food Network television show Iron Chef America.In January 2005, Cora co-founded Chefs For Humanity, which describes itself as a grassroots coalition of chefs and culinary professionals guided by a mission to quickly be able to raise funds and provide resources for important emergency and humanitarian aid, nutritional education and hunger-related initiatives throughout the world.

In 2006, she was hired as a paid spokesperson for InSinkErator Evolution series garbage disposals. In the September 2006 issue of FHM, Cora was featured in the cooking section, where she demonstrated various recipes using items purchased from a convenience store. Cat Cora also belongs to Macy's Culinary Councils, amongst Tyler Florence, Rick Bayless, and others. She has worked as an entertainer for The Olivia Companies, a travel company catering to the lesbian market. Cora was a winner of the Bon Appétit American Food and Entertaining Awards for 2006. In 2008, she was awarded the Hero Visibility Award by the Human Rights Campaign. Cat Cora Food Television Biography Click Here.

7. Padma Lakshmi

Padma Parvati Lakshmi was born on September 1, 1970 and She is an Indian American cookbook author, actress and former model who has described herself as the first well-known model from India. She has been the host of the reality television program Top Chef since season two.

Her first cookbook Easy Exotic was awarded Best First Book at the 1999 World Cookbook Awards at Versailles. She was host of the Food Network series, Padma's Passport, which is part of the larger series Melting Pot, in 2001. She has also been a guest host on parts of the British culinary tourism show Planet Food, hosting the segments on India and Spain. Her second cookbook Tangy, Tart, Hot and Sweet was released October 2, 2007.