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Giada De Laurentiis had no intention of getting into into the household enterprise of present.

By now, it is arduous to think about the Italian-born granddaughter of famed movie producer Dino De Laurentiis as something apart from the Meals Community fixture we have identified her to be for the final 15 years, presiding over her ever-expanding empire from one genuine (or, some may argue, over-) pronunciation of prosciutto to the subsequent, however when execs on the cable channel got here a’calling, the Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, who turns 49 on Thursday, August 22, had no need to take them up on their provide.

“As a result of I come from a film household,” she admitted on Eater’s Upsell podcast in April 2018. “I used to be like, ‘What’s Meals Community?’ To start with, Meals Community wasn’t what it’s immediately. There have been like three folks on it, Emeril [Lagasse] being one, Bobby Flay perhaps being the