The Food Network is becoming a more diverse place. Instead of just featuring so-called master chefs, iron chefs, executive chefs and the like, the Food Network has also started featuring just really good cooks.
One such cook on the Food Network is Giada De Laurentiis, otherwise known as “Sorriso a 64 Denti” in my family. My family likes to watch the Food Network because it inspires us. We might not like the commercialism of it all the time, and we get annoyed a lot by egos of some of the more famous chefs, but we like getting ideas, day and night about what other people do with food.
We enjoy watching Giada De Laurentiis on the Food Network, because like Rachel Ray, she is a nice Italian girl, making foods that remind us of our grandparents and big family dinners. We tease her because she is like one of our own. She has her own show Everyday Italian featuring some of her family favorite recipes..

Her show probably has a following for two reasons, she is a lively and good cook with a spunky personality, and for all the male viewers she is cute, petite and some would say hot. One of Roberto’s friends was forbidden by his wife to watch it for this very reason. He was not watching it to learn how to cook favorite family Italian foods, he was watching it to watch her. But you know, good looks are an advantage when you are in the lime light. So go for it Giada!

Now, to spice things up a little more, the Food Network has given Giada her own travel show: Giada’s Weekend Getaways, where she gets to eat in cities all over the country. Unlike Anthony Bourdain, who by his very nature despises the Food Network (and I am pretty sure, Rachel Ray due to her commercial appeal), Giada goes to all the swankiest places in the cities she goes to. Unlike Rachel Ray’s $40 Dollars a Day show, also on the Food Network, Giada is not sparing any expenses. In fact, she never even says how much she spends on the meals she eats, things like a specialty gelato milkshake, called the “chocolate martini”, or a lobster pie, with a whole lobster inside. And Giada’s best tip for when traveling to places like South Beach, or LA, always rent a convertible!
So if you are looking for where to go on your travels to eat really well, and spare no expenses, you can check out Giada’s Weekend Getaways on the Food Network!
But for most of us, who are not the grand-daughters of one of Italy’s most famous film producers (Dino De Laurentiis), we cannot go on weekend getaways like this all the time, but if you like food, it is fun to see what she is going to eat next, and how extravagant it will be!

Mangia!

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