A Day in Parma with Top Gourmet Chef Giada De Laurentiis
May 16th, 2007
If you are an Italian Food Lover you certainly know Giada De Laurentiis. Everybody does, and everybody loves her “everyday” style.
Giada De Laurentiis is a TV Chef celebrity and author of 3 best-selling cookbooks where she presents both traditional everyday classics of Italian cuisine and some great contemporary gourmet twists.
Granddaughter of film producer Dino De Laurentiis, Giada was born in Rome, but she moved early to Los Angeles, California, where she established.
Today she is one of Food Network’s most recognizable faces, with a 30 minutes daily cooking show, Everyday Italian, that features quick, healthy and satisfying dishes using traditional Italian ingredients and techniques. You don’t want to miss Everyday Italian - the show airs on Food Network twelve times a week at both 11:00am and 4:30pm. Check it out.
Since January this year, De Laurentiis launched also her new primetime television series, Giada’s Weekend Getaways. Giada will explore in 13 episodes the various cultures within popular cities in and around the United States, such as Charleston, Santa Fe, Cabo San Lucas and Austin.
Starting from June 2007, Giada will run a summer show from dream locations, the Mediterranean islands of Santorini and Capri, in a two-part special entitled Giada in Paradise that will explore culture, food, and sights of these popular dream locations.
Stay tuned on Food Network with Giada De Laurentiis, and visit her website www.giadadelaurentiis.com for a more complete and updated schedule of Giada’s TV shows, public appearances and book publishing!
Giada has also been the official Barilla Ambassador (or spokesperson) for last year, and our collaboration with Giada, aslo at Academia Barilla, is projected forward. At Academia Barilla we have many opportunities to catch-up with Giada - you might remember one of our posts last month, when we met her at the Second Annual World Festival in Chicago.
When Giada published her latest book, Giada’s Family Dinner, she teamed up with Barilla for an afternoon of book signing at the National Restaurant Association show in 2006.
That afternoon she also performed a cooking session, presenting a couple of recipes from her book, Little Thimbles and Sciue’ Sciue’ (Fusilli with Shrimp & Arugula, and Linguine with Spicy Red Clam Sauce). Of course in that occasion she used Academia Barilla’s olive oils, cheeses and balsamic vinegars to make her culinary creations perfect!
Today we want to homage Giada by publishing a video shot a couple of years ago during a visit to Parma, where Giada says she always hunts for the three Ps: prosciutto, parmigiano e pasta!
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