Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

The kitchen was the center of our household. I spent all of my time there growing up.

I come from a family of great cooks and big eaters.

When I was growing up, my grandmother cooked every day. She is the best chef ever.

I started cooking from watching my mom. My mother was a really, really great cook.

My mum and dad are pretty amazing chefs and they spent most of my childhood cooking really extravagant things for my sister and me.

My abuela was an incredible cook.

I grew up in a household where we cooked all the time. My mom cooked all the time; my dad cooked. My grandmothers cooked. I have memories of sitting on the counter and snapping green beans with my grandmother.

My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.

The kitchen is the heart of every home, for the most part. It evokes memories of your family history.

My mom is a really good cook. We used to make dumplings together.

My mom and sister and I all cook.

One of my dad's biggest passions is cooking, so we always had good food at home.

One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

From me growing up with a large family and everybody singing around the Christmas tree, it was a wonderful, wonderful upbringing.

My grandmother Dora taught me how to cook. She's from a small town in West Virginia called Milton. I would pull a stool up to her kitchen counter after school. My love of food started there.

Both of my parents worked, so it was my way of helping around the house by making dinner for my family. I fell in love with it.

In a house without a genuine kitchen, one of the delights of growing up is lost.

Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.

The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where everyone congregates.

My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

I have memories of my grandfather Kirkman making mashed potatoes that were so good because they tasted like a bowl of butter. I love my mom's brownies. My favorite thing about both of those recipes is that someone else made them for me.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.