Giada De Laurentiis

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis is an Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality. She is the host of Food Network’s Giada at Home. She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC’s Today. In July 2014, she opened her first restaurant, The GIADA Cafe.

About Giada De Laurentiis in brief

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis is an Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality. She is the host of Food Network’s Giada at Home. She also appears regularly as a contributor and guest co-host on NBC’s Today. In 2009, she became the voice of Manny Handy on the animated show Handy’s Handy. In July 2014, De Laurentis opened her first restaurant, The GIADA Cafe, inside the Cromwell Hotel in Los Angeles, California. She has also appeared as a guest judge on The Next Food Network Star and Iron Chef America. She was born on August 22, 1970, in Rome, Italy, to actress Veronica and actor-producer Alex De Benedetti. Her maternal great-grandmother was English and her grandmother was British-Italian film star Silvana Mangano.

Her siblings include sister Eloisa, a makeup artist, and brothers Igor and Dino Alexander II, a Hollywood film editor who died of melanoma in 2003. She studied at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, with aspirations of becoming a pastry chef. After returning to the U.S., she became a professional chef working in several Los Angeles restaurants, notably the Wolfgang Puck-owned Spago. She later worked as a food stylist and was contacted by the Food Network after styling a piece in Food & Wine magazine in 2002. Her Food Network daytime cooking show, Everyday Italian, premiered April 5, 2003. In 2008, she won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and the Gracie Award for Best Television Host.

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