Martha, you make it so hard for me to like you...

Oh, Martha. I do love your candid commentary and your gorgeous creative expressions. But dammit -- sometimes, you make it so hard for me to like you!

Case in point -- when you slammed Rachel Ray recently, I was like -- YEAH! WOO HOOO!!! Cause let's face it, Rachel Ray is realllllllllly grating. But then, Rachel responded in a truly classy and self-deprecating way, well, it made you look like an even bitchier uber-bitch!

"Well, to me, she professed that she could -- cannot bake," Stewart says of Ray in the interview, airing Thursday. "She -- just did a new cookbook which is just a re-edit of a lot of her old recipes. She -- and that's not good enough for me." When it comes to writing a book, Stewart says she want to publish something that "is a unique and lasting thing. Something that will really fulfill a need in someone's library." Ray, she says, "is different."Stewart says Ray is "more of an entertainer ... with her bubbly personality, than she is a teacher, like me. That's not what she's professing to be."

Do Stewart's remarks make Ray mad? "Why would it make me mad?" Ray asks. "Her skill set is far beyond mine. That's simply the reality of it." Ray adds that "that doesn't mean that what I do isn't important too... I don't consider it needling. I really just think she's being honest. She does have a better skill set than I do when it comes to producing a beautiful, perfect, high-quality meal." Says Ray, "I'd rather eat Martha's than mine, too." [yahoo]

Ouch!!!!!! Now, if only we can mix a ham-throwing Paula Deen in to this mess, then we'll have a real food fight! (Yes, I went there. I said that. But corny is my milieu.)