My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
Every time I think I have something under control, it changes and I don't have it under control. I think it takes several years to get there. Jade is 19 months old, so right now I'm on alert all the time. And as a mom I think you're constantly worrying about things.
I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home.
I think it can be hard for any man to sometimes be upstaged by his wife. So when I'm home, I work very hard to be Todd's wife and Jade's mother. I have no problem going back to those traditional roles. I try to be Giada, the young girl that he met 20 years ago and fell in love with.
I don't eat a lot of anything. A little bit of everything, but not a lot of everything. Small meals all day long.
There's nothing like a home-cooked meal - nothing! When people ask me what the best restaurant in L. A. is, I say, 'Uh, my house. ' It's more intimate. Food can connect people in a forever sort of way.
Later on Lady Maccon was to describe that particular day as the worst of her life. She had neither the soul nor the romanticism to consider childbirth magical or emotionally transporting. So far as she could gather it mostly involved pain indignity and mess. There was nothing engaging or appealing about the process. And as she told her husband firmly she intended never to go through it again.
Maybe the light's at the other end of the tunnel.
Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.