Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

• 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?’

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• 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.

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• Yoga has trimmed my body in a way that the gym never could. I used to be a gym rat, but I switched to yoga and am now almost 10 pounds lighter. One important thing I’ve gotten from yoga is breathing. When I’m cooking, the top part of my body collapses down. It cuts off my diaphragm.

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• Everything in moderation.

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• The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

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

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• 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.

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• Talking to other people while you’re cooking, it doesn’t come naturally.

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• Stock up your pantry and your freezer with things that aren’t perishable: Your favorite jar of tomato sauce that lists ‘tomato’ as the first ingredient, lots of grains, olive oils, vinegars, tomato pastes, onions, shallots. When you go to the store, you only have to pick up meats and produce.

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• Pasta doesn’t make you fat. How much pasta you eat makes you fat.

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• My mother and I, our favorite part of any baked pasta is the top, where the cheese gets crusty.

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• 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.

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• My grandfather gave me inspiration to cook, and love food and flavors. My Aunt Raffie, gave me creativity and the inspiration to create new things. My mother inspires me to find simplicity in food.

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• 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.

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• My biggest bit of advice would be to spend some time actually helping caterers or Chefs, even if it has to be for free or as an intern of culinary externship. It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do.

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• It’s almost ingrained in people that, just like you can’t be a smart model, you can’t be a good-looking cook.

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• It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

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• If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won’t go in there. That’s why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

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• I’m most comfortable in T-shirts, but they have to have some style to them.

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• I wasn’t looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business, so I was never interested in that world.

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Giada De Laurentiis (48)

Birth:	22nd August, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Chef, Television Presenter, Writer

About

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis was born in Rome, Italy. She is an Italian-born American chef, writer, and the host of the current Food Network television program Giada at Home. She earned her bachelor's degree in social anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. She is the founder of the catering business GDL Foods. She is a winner of the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host. She began hosting Behind the Bash in October 2006. In 2007, she appeared as a presenter at the inaugural Food Network Awards. She has written several cook books including Everyday Italian, Giada's Family Dinners, Everyday Pasta, and Giada's Kitchen.

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