2021-03-29
52 分钟Many people know my guest today, Giada de Laurentiis, as the Emmy Award winning television personality of shows like Food Network's Everyday Italian, Giada at Home, Giada's weekend getaways as a judge on Food Network star and winner cake all.
Maybe you've seen her on NBC Today show as a contributor, and she's also a successful restaurateur with the restaurants Giada and pronto by Giada in Los Angeles as well as GDL Italian in Baltimore.
Or maybe you know her as an author of nine New York Times bestselling books, including her most recent, Eat better, Feel better, which really deftly navigates the sweet spot between delicious recipes and a more healthful approach to cooking and eating.
But what you may not know, and what Giada shares in the pages of this new book, and also in a much more expansive way in our deep dive conversation, is how her upbringing in a dynastic family of film, both in Italy and Hollywood, shaped everything from her love of food and family and cooking for others to her early disdain for even being in front of a camera.
Her decision to step into the world of cooking on television, in fact, it caused quite a dust up in the family and the career that in front of the camera seems so beautiful and glamorous and alive, would eventually end up taking a pretty serious toll on her physical and mental health.
There was a slow building, dark side that would take years to acknowledge and then eventually step out of and do the work to reimagine both her mental and physical health, as well as the way that she chose to bring herself to the world of work and life and her devotion to food and creativity and family.
We dive into all of this in today's conversation.
So excited to share it with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
It's funny because we're talking about my new book and a lot of it is.
Just as we get older, we start to realize, just embrace the life that you have, accept where you are, and actually you'll have a much better time and your body and your mind will feel better.
We spend so much time, at least I did, trying to perfect and edit and make sure that everything just comes out perfect and you look perfect, that it's so exhausting that your whole body and then in your mind takes a huge beating and you don't really realize it because you're in the grind in that rat wheel all the time or hamster wheel.
Yeah, it's like you don't have the perspective of being able to sort of zoom out in the metal ends, of looking back in.
It's interesting, that frame that you bring to it, though, because I don't want to dive a lot into the last ten years in this new, beautiful bucket.
But if we take a bigger leap back in time, you're essentially born into a family of films where the idea of producing and creating and perfection and shooting until you get it absolutely right, it's almost like it's part of your DNA.
From the earliest days, which is how.
I crafted my show from the beginning.
Even my demo reel, which, you know, was also a process, because I didn't really want to do it.
It really.
When I thought, if I'm going to really do this, then it has to be absolutely perfect.