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Published September 03, 2008 05:49 pm - Amish history culture, scenic farms and countryside, plus delicious Amish Wedding food, will be featured in a segment for cooking host Rachael Ray’s TV show and Web site. RV’s Rachael Ray to feature Geauga County Amish By DORIS COOK - Staff Writer Star Beacon MIDDLEFIELD — Amish history culture, scenic farms and countryside, plus delicious Amish Wedding food, will be featured in a segment for cooking host Rachael Ray’s TV show and Web site.
The segment was filmed Saturday in Trumbull and eastern Geauga counties. The Around the World Productions film crew followed Ridgeview Farm owner and tour operator Sharon Grover on her Amish Backroads Tour. Zsolt Luka, Around the World Productions’ producer-director, who is of Hungarian descent, was joined by Alex Boylan, a host with Rachael Ray on her cooking talk show. The crew, including Luka, Josh Bolton, and Andrew Boylan, filmed Emma Miller’s Amish Craft Shop in Middlefield, the Middlefield Original Cheese Co-Op, several other Amish-owned businesses and the End of the Commons General Store in Mesopotamia. “We ended their visit at an Amish home in Troy Township for a typical Amish wedding lunch,” Grover said. “Here everyone was served the same type food the Amish serve at a typical wedding. They really enjoyed their visit, and we were excited to have them pick us,” Grover said. The large red van, painted with Rachael Ray’s photos and called “Rach to the Rescue,” caught the attention of many people in the Geauga area Saturday. Luka said the California-based crew hauls a lot of its computers and camera equipment aboard but the van is not equipped for sleeping. “We are making a number of stops over the next six weeks in 36 to 37 states. It’s part of the show’s Hidden Gems, which will be on Rachael Ray’s Web site in what is called a ‘webisode.’ The visit to Geauga County will be up on the Web site this week. It’s among the first. A portion of what we filmed may also get on Rachael Ray’s show,” Luka said when contacted Tuesday in Chicago. To see the webisode on the Ridgeview Farm Geauga Amish tour visit go to Rachael Ray’s website: rachaelrayshow.com/rachtotherescue/, then click on to find the red bus. “It appeared on Wednesday and was over six minutes. I was very pleased with the result,” Grover said. She said the tour of eastern Geauga County was designed to give the film crew a glimpse of the nation’s fourth-largest Amish community. “In turn, it promotes Geauga County as a tourist destination,” she said. “For me, it was a once-in-a-lifetime event promoting Geauga County and the Amish back-road tours we do. I thoroughly enjoyed it and found Alex, Zsolt and the crew easy to work with. We sent them off with copies of an Amish cookbook for the show and other gifts to remember us,” Grover said. Grover serves as president of the Geauga County Tourism Council. The Grovers’ Ridgeview Farm Web site first attracted the Around the World Productions crew as a place to start their Hidden Gems journey in Ohio, according to Luka. “We just started filming this series. It’s all about seeing America through the eyes of the local people in their hometowns. We started in New York and are heading west for the next month. This is the first time for meeting Amish folks,” Boylan said as they departed after lunch. 
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