"I think you can tell the food is close to my heart, too, because I’m doing what I do best." ― Giada De Laurentiis Topic(s): Food More From 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." "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." "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." More In Food "On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners."― George Mikes "To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected."― Geraldo Rivera "This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave."― Tom Wolfe