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Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

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

– 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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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

– Giada De Laurentiis

I keep my skin – especially on my face and neck – out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I’ve got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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

– Giada De Laurentiis

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I’ve also seen a whole lot of pain.

– Giada De Laurentiis

I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I’m doing what I do best.

– Giada De Laurentiis

I lost my brother when he was 30, and that was devastating for me. I don’t know if I will ever get over it.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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

– Giada De Laurentiis

I made lemon spaghetti in an early season of ‘Everyday Italian,’ and to this day people still come up to me and say they love it. It’s very, very simple. Basically, you cook the pasta and mix together Parmesan cheese, olive oil, lemon juice and zest and pour it over the pasta.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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

– 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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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

– Giada De Laurentiis

Food brings people together on many different levels. It’s nourishment of the soul and body; it’s truly love.

– Giada De Laurentiis

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

I count on chiropractic sessions to keep my body aligned. Standing for hours can impact my posture, and that can throw the rest of my body out of whack. Acupuncture helps me relax and release stress. I’m also very into massage to help release tension in my back, neck, and shoulders.

– 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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

I’m into very colorful food. Obviously lots of flavor, but I think we eat with our eyes first, so it has to look great. The presentation has to be great.

– 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.

– 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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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.

– Giada De Laurentiis

Attitudes toward food have completely changed.

– Giada De Laurentiis

Food was always a big part of my life. My grandfather was one of 14 kids, and his parents had a pasta factory, so as a kid, he and his siblings would sell pasta door to door. After he became a movie producer, he opened up De Laurentiis Food Stores – one in Los Angeles and one in New York.

– Giada De Laurentiis

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.

– Giada De Laurentiis