A beloved daytime talk show host just spilled the Negroni on why she swapped the hustle of the U.S. for the dolce vita in Italy.

Hosting Blue Moon Burger Bash 2.0 at the New York City Wine & Food Festival on October 17, Rachael Ray gushed about “Bel Paese.”

“I live there as long and as much as I can,” she told PEOPLE.

There is a bit of trouble with her love affair with Italy, though. Her husband of 20 years, John Cusimano, is a New Yorker through and through.

“My husband loves New York, prefers New York,” Ray told the outlet. “And he has a rock ‘n’ roll band, and so he spends a lot of time here. I spend as much time as I can there. We work in both places.”

“I tell John all the time, however much time he wants to spend here, do it,” the celebrity cook and TV host added.

The couple liv

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