Author: Giada De Laurentiis

Food

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

Giada De Laurentiis

My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.

Family

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me – their granddaughter niece etc. and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

Giada De Laurentiis

My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me – their granddaughter niece etc. and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.

Family

The summer before I went to culinary school my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Giada De Laurentiis

The summer before I went to culinary school my family wanted me to take a job on a movie to make sure that I was making the right decision. I think they hoped I would change my mind about culinary school.

Family

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta yes but not a lot of it.

Giada De Laurentiis

I eat a little bit of everything and not a lot of anything. Everything in moderation. I know that's really hard for people to understand but I grew up in an Italian family where we didn't overdo anything. We ate pasta yes but not a lot of it.

Family

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

Giada De Laurentiis

My grandfather's family used to own a pasta factory in Naples and they would go door-to-door selling their pasta. So his love of food came from his parents which was then passed down to my mother and then again to me.

Death

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me especially now that I am a mother which is why I work with Oxfam.

Giada De Laurentiis

To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me especially now that I am a mother which is why I work with Oxfam.

Death

Lidia Bastianich sorry but kind of boring. I mean I love Lidia but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

Giada De Laurentiis

Lidia Bastianich sorry but kind of boring. I mean I love Lidia but you can fall asleep watching her. And Mario Batali? I love Mario to death… but he's not romantic or sensual. Those are the things I bring to the table.

Cool

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different but when I was a kid it was not cool – at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs stuffed with mozzarella cheese tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like 'What is this?'

Giada De Laurentiis

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different but when I was a kid it was not cool – at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs stuffed with mozzarella cheese tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like 'What is this?'

Birthday

When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.

Giada De Laurentiis

When I was a kid for my birthday every year my mother made me pasta bechamel which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.