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

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

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

- Giada De Laurentiis

There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L.A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house.' It's more intimate.…

- 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, …

- Giada De Laurentiis

It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.

- Giada De Laurentiis

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

- Giada De Laurentiis

You just need a little perspective. Warmed chocolate can give you that.

- Giada De Laurentiis