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Freaky 'Day': It sure looks like Rachael Ray, but look a little closer. Every Freaking Day! With Rachell Ray (Grand Central, $12.99) parodies the food lifestyle magazine Every Day With Rachael Ray. The unauthorized parody, on sale Sept. 3, is packed with recipes and commentary from "Rachell" and photos of a model who bears an eerie resemblance to the TV personality. "She's very easy to parody," says Freaking author Elizabeth Hilts. "She has a lot of very recognizable mannerisms: talking with her hands, singing to the food, referring to food as an almost human entity." Even if the parody sells well -- the first printing is 35,000 -- it's unlikely to match the 7.2 million copies in print of Ray's six cookbooks. The seventh is due in November. The real Ray hasn't seen the parody and couldn't comment, her publicist says.

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