Giada De Laurentiis | Life Beyond Food
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
With culinary training from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, and a relatability that seems to light up the screen, many people know Giada De Laurentiis as the Emmy award-winning television personality of shows like Food Network’s Everyday Italian, Giada at Home, Giada’s Weekend Getaways, as a judge on Food Network Star and Winner Cake All, an NBC Today Show contributor, and a successful restaurateur with restaurants GIADA and Pronto by Giada in Las Vegas, as well as GDL Italian in Baltimore. Or, maybe you know her as the author of nine New York Times bestselling cookbooks, including her most recent, Eat Better Feel Better (https://amzn.to/2NQEJfi), which deftly navigates the sweet spot between delicious recipes and a more healthful approach to cooking and eating.
But, what you may not know, and what Giada shares in the pages of this new book and our deep-dive conversation, is how her upbringing in a dynastic family of film, both in Italy and Hollywood, shaped everything from her love of food and cooking for others, to her early disdain for being in front of the camera. Her decision to step into the world of cooking on television, in fact, caused quite a dustup in the family. And the career that, in front of the camera, seemed so beautiful and glamorous, would eventually take a serious toll on her physical and mental health. There was a slowly-building dark side that would take years to acknowledge, then eventually step out of and do the work to reimagine both her mental and physical health, as well as the way she brought herself to her work, life and devotion to food and creativity.
You can find Giada at:
Website : https://www.giadadelaurentiis.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/giadadelaurentiis/
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| 0:00.0 | Many people know my guest today, Jada DeLorentis, as the Emmy Award-winning television personality |
| 0:11.6 | of shows like Food Networks Everyday Italian Jada at home. Jada's weekend getaways as a judge |
| 0:18.7 | on Food Network star and winner-cake-all. Maybe you've seen her on NBC Today Show as a contributor, |
| 0:25.1 | and she's also a successful restaurant tour with the restaurants Jada and Pronto by Jada in Los |
| 0:31.3 | Angeles as well as GDL Italian in Baltimore. Or maybe you know her as an author of nine New York |
| 0:37.9 | Times best-selling books, including her most recent Eat Better, Feel Better, which really |
| 0:43.4 | definitely navigates the sweet spot between delicious recipes and a more healthful approach to |
| 0:49.3 | cooking and eating. But what you may not know, and what Jada shares in the pages of this new book, |
| 0:55.5 | and also in a much more expansive way in our deep dive conversation, is how her upbringing in a |
| 1:02.0 | dynastic family of film, both in Italy and Hollywood, shaped everything from her love of food and |
| 1:07.7 | family and cooking for others to her early disdain for even being in front of a camera. Her decision |
| 1:15.2 | to step into the world of cooking on television in fact, it caused quite a dust up in the family. |
| 1:20.1 | And the career that in front of the camera seemed so beautiful and glamorous and alive would |
| 1:25.7 | eventually end up taking a pretty serious toll on her physical and mental health. There was a |
| 1:31.1 | slow-building dark side that would take years to acknowledge and then eventually step out of |
| 1:36.2 | and do the work to reimagine both her mental and physical health, as well as the way that she |
| 1:42.0 | chose to bring herself to the world of work and life and her devotion to food and creativity and |
| 1:48.0 | family. We dive into all of this into today's conversation, so excited to share it with you. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project. |
| 2:05.2 | It's funny because we're talking about my new book and a lot of it is just as we get older, |
| 2:10.4 | we start to realize just embrace the life that you have, accept where you are and actually you'll |
| 2:16.1 | have a much better time and your body and your mind will feel better. We spend so much time at least |
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