The holidays stress people out so much. I suggest you keep it simple and try to have as much fun as you can.

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 grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

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?'

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

People say, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Because people do wild and crazy things in Vegas that they probably wouldn't do any other time. Which is why I feel like, if you're gonna open your first restaurant, this might be the place to do it.