These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it … - Giada De Laurentiis

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I didn't even graduate from high school. I've never told anybody that before. I got my degree later, when I was in the army.

Giada De Laurentiis

These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And they'd be like, 'What is this?'

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