Giada De Laurentiis Quotes

I love pasta with the homemade marinara sauce I had as a kid.

Let's face it: my life tends to revolve around food, and I love feeding people.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

I just love food, especially my mom's Bulgarian cooking. Taco Bell is my favorite fast food restaurant. I also love Italian food.

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

In Italy, food is an expression of love. It is how you show those around you that you care for them. Having a love for food means you also have a love for those you are preparing it for and for yourself.

One of my favorite dishes is this alfredo I make, and I make the sauce from scratch. I love making everything from scratch.

Spaghetti is love.

My sisters like cooking at my place. It has a bit more room, and the food tastes a little bit better. A big pot of spaghetti and sauce, some warm French bread - works all the time. I think I've been eating pasta for 26 years.

I cook a lot of Italian food. Bucatini Pomodoro is my best: it's a fat spaghetti with tomato, olive oil, and reminds me of getting married in Italy.

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

You look at the Barefoot Contessa or Lydia Bastianich, and it's just like watching your mother cooking.

I seriously love to cook... My grandmother was an amazing cook. As a kid I used to help her make handmade pasta, Cavatelli and Ravioli. It was one of my favorite things to do. I love the idea of making whatever is in the fridge into something.

Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.

Pesto is such a great standard. It's so simple to make and always tastes good.

I always have parmigiano-reggiano, olive oil and pasta at home. When people get sick, they want chicken soup; I want spaghetti with parmesan cheese, olive oil and a bit of lemon zest. It makes me feel better every time.

I love making Italian food. And coconut chicken.

I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

My default-setting Italian recipes that I always fall back on are the ones that we had as kids, like spaghetti vongole, which is tomato and clams with spaghetti.

I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

My favourite meal is probably chicken with penne pasta and pesto.

If someone offers me a hot plate of Penne Arrabiata, fageddaboutit.

My signature dish - something I've been making since I was 10 - is angel hair pasta with shrimp and feta in a white-wine basil sauce with tomatoes, because it's absolutely amazing.

Food is a passion for me, especially Italian cuisine. I prefer to have somebody cook for me, but I can do some very nice pasta dishes.

I'm a fan of a big roast or a bolognese, but I also love baking.