Rachel Ray

I am trying Rachel Ray's magazine to get some recipes from and I will let you know how it goes. I found some of her cookbooks to be a little less user friendly since they had a lot of ingredients not available in normal stores. I think there is nothing that irritates me more than choosing something to make for dinner then looking for an ingredient that I have never heard of. I don't mind making once a week new spice/vinegar/sauce purchases. I think it is good for me so that I can learn to be a better cook and once you buy tumeric powder or whatever you probably wont need to buy it again because it is only once in awhile that you find a recipe with that in it. One of the first recipes I tried she list san marzano canned tomatoes. WTH is san marzano tomatoes? I still dont know but she had a pictures of whole tomatoes in the pot so I figured it out. Why not just write whole tomatoes.