Giada De Laurentiis Talks About Diet and Food

One of my Italian icons, Giada De Laurentiis, was recently interviewed by www.signonsandiego.com about how she stays so slim while cooking—and eating—Italian food. Here is her answer:

"Italian food is actually good, healthy, fresh food. Extremes are never a good thing. You need to find some kind of balance in your life. I don’t eat a lot, but I eat anything I want. I’m a chocoholic. If you ask me something that I crave every single day of my life it is chocolate, in some form. Do I allow myself to have it every day? Yes. If I go overboard one day, I scale it back the next. Can you eat pasta? Yes. You just can’t eat a pound. When you go out to eat, eat whatever you want, but try to ask for appetizer-size portions. Or if you want to get a main course portion have them pack up half of it and take it home. Our portions are so big. Europeans do not eat those portions, they just don’t. We consume too much." 

Right on Giada! This is exactly the Healthy Italian message.