A baker's rack serves a kitchen as storage, countertop, curio cabinet, and cooling surface. This versatile piece of furniture, usually made of wrought iron, originally cooled batches of pies on shelves that allowed free air circulation. Open, high shelves sit atop a wider, wood counter, with drawers and deep shelves below in a standard baker's rack.
Elle Macpherson as Janine Lecroix and Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani on 'Friends' in 1999. The Australian supermodel, 52, played Janine Lecroix, a dancer who became Joey Tribbianiâs (Matt LeBlanc) roommate and eventual love interest.
ABC News. Share: 'That Girl' Marlo Thomas Now Plays a Mom. On the hit show Friends, Marlo Thomas plays the sophisticated mother of Jennifer Aniston's character Rachel, a sexy, unmarried young woman with a mind of her own. What the show's Generation X audience might not know is that Thomas once played a similar role herself, as the star of That Girl, a pioneering sitcom that ran from 1966 to 1971 â before some of the Friends cast were even born.