Rachael Ray is celebrating Christmas from Italy this year!
On Wednesday, December 25, the TV presenter and chef, 56, gave fans a glimpse of her Christmas 2024 celebration in an Instagram post, sharing photos of her gorgeous dinner.
“Christmas No. 3 at our favorite vacation spot in Puglia 🇮🇹,” she wrote in the caption, referring to the coastal region located in southern Italy.
In a series of photos, Ray showed off her family’s meal, which included turkey with sprigs of fresh herbs (along with a mock turkey as a centerpiece), baked potatoes, a green and pomegranate salad, soup, gravy and more.
“I wish everyone a warm, pleasant and joy-filled holiday 🎄✨”, added the TV presenter.
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The celebrity chef and her husband, John Cusimano, have been candid about spending more and more time in Italy since the end of her syndicated daytime talk show, The Rachael Ray Showin May 2023.
At the time her long-running streak ended, Ray revealed on Instagram that she was “spending more time in Italy” — away from their New York homes, which include an NYC apartment and a Lake Luzerne home they rebuilt after it was destroyed in the big fire in August 2020.
Ray recently shared photos of her time in Italy last summer, posting Instagram photos of her and her family enjoying the sunset on the Tuscan island of Elba, as well as celebrating Cusimano’s birthday in Puglia.
Italy holds another special meaning for the couple — Ray and Cusimano tied the knot in Italy, tying the knot in a Tuscan castle called Castello di Velona in 2005. The couple also renewed their vows 10 years later in 2015, returning to the same castle with plenty of celebrity guests , including Guy Fieri, Ken Oringer and Anne Burrell, who all took turns cooking for the crowd.
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The couple flew around 100 of their family and friends to Italy for the celebration, and the couple said at the time that they and their loved ones have returned to the castle every year since they tied the knot.
“We’ve been doing this celebration every year for 10 years,” Ray told PEOPLE in 2015. “We’re very busy; I have five jobs. We don’t see everyone often enough and probably take them and their friendship for granted. But they make us better people because we know them.”
Rachael Ray and John Cusimano in June 2024.
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Ray also celebrates his love of Italian cuisine with Rachael Ray in Tuscanyher latest series which premiered in June.
In 2024, her production company, Free Food Studios, partnered with A&E Networks to bring “into the kitchen” content and new shows from Ray and other talent over the next two years. Ray told PEOPLE in January that she’s “not very good at taking breaks” — something she expressed on her podcast, I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
“I like to work. I love it. I love that my brain is very active, and if I’m not writing shows, I’m drawing ‘food,’ as I call them — recipes on paper — and writing books and stuff,” she said. “I don’t like to be idle. I was never good at it.”
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