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giada interview

CookingHow was at the 2009 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is an annual, two-day event held on the UCLA campus.  Needless to say, we were drawn to the Cooking Stage, where various chefs and cookbook authors took the stage with cooking demonstrations.

Katie Lee Joel, Curtis Stone, and Jamie Purviance were just some of the special guest speakers this year at the Cooking Stage, but Giada De Laurentiis definitely drew the largest crowd by far.  Not only is she the host of several Food Network shows, including Giada at Home and [...]

life's lessons learned & passed on from our favorite chefs and food personalities

“Every time you taste something new, you add 75 days to your life.”

- Japanese Proverb

“You can’t hurry love, and you can’t rush puff pastry, either. You can knead too much, and you can be too needy. Always, warmth is what brings pastry to rise. Chemistry creates something amazing; coupled with care and heat, it works some kind of magic to create this satisfying, welcoming, and nourishing thing that is the base of life.”

- Kathleen Flinn,The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You [...]

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- David Lebowitz

Giada at Home: Family Recipes from Italy and California
- Giada De Laurentiis

The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
- Ree Drummond

Rose's Heavenly Cakes
- Rose Levy Beranbaum