"Feud" may be too strong of a word. Yet chef Giada De Laurentiis admits that she and Rachael Ray aren't exactly the best of friends.

'Do we hang out all the time? No. Are we best friends? No,' De Laurentiis tells the June issue of Redbook.

'But if you're not best friends, people assume you hate each other,' continues De Laurentiis, who hosts a new show Giada at Home.

'We laugh about it,' De Laurentiis says. 'We do these festivals
together, and she'll say to me, 'Oh, we'd better take a picture
together and smile, because if we don't, God only knows what's going to
get written about us.' She's a lovely person.' "

I'm glad to hear this because I love them both! Rachael is fantastic for good everyday recipes, and if you ever want to do something fancier, than Giada's recipes are the best.

I wondered if this was over the 'Iron Chef' defeat Giada suffered when she and Rachael competed against each other, but I thought Giada was a bigger person than that ;)

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Giada de Laurentiis graces the cover of Page Six Magazine this week. Known best for being the seductive chef behind Food Network’s Everyday Italian and author of two New York Times best-selling cookbooks, Giada talked about her childhood in Italy, success as a renowned chef, her favorite food spot in Manhattan, and happiness as a wife and mother. 

Giada admits she doesn’t wear the highest of necklines on her show, but denies an intentional sex appeal approach:

“Porn? I’m not doing porn! What the hell are people talking about? [It’s not] PBS-style cooking. I mean, I love Lidia [Bastianich], but [she’s] kind of boring.  And Mario Batali [I] love to death…but he’s not romantic or sensual.  Those are the things I bring to the table.”

Everyday Italian is now on a break, but that only means Giada found a plethora of other projects to fill her plate.  Her new show, Giada at Home, a fourth cookbook, her dress-designing husband Todd, and Jade, her “peanut” of a daughter keep her more than occupied.

There was once a time where having children, or even marriage, didn’t seem to be on the menu. 

“I never cared about marriage.  I was more worried about working, and really didn’t think I’d have kids.  Then Todd turned 40 and I guess he thought to himself, ‘I think I’d like to marry Giada.’”

Giada hopes to instill an appreciation for her home country in her daughter, by singing her the Italian lullabies that were once sang to her as a child.  Her husband has other plans to throw into the family pot. 

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