No. 2: Rachel Ray
Earnings: $25 million
Rachel Ray is the only chef to feature on our list who doesn’t have her own restaurant. But what she does have is several TV shows and more than 20 books about cooking. Her marketing and management abilities paid off in the end. After all, she did learn from the best, working under the wing of Miss Oprah Winfrey when she first started out her career in television.
