Quotes by Nadia Giosia - Page 1

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Italian
Rockets
Surgery
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Italian
Surgery
Rocket
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I was a ravenous child. I'm a ravenous adult. I love to eat.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Adults
Children
Adult
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I work out four to five days a week, alternating three workouts.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Three
Work Out
Workout
Work Three Week
Workouts
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
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Quality
Exercise
Quality Of Life
Roof
Exercising
Life Go Through
Trainer
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Entertainment
Lifestyle
Television
Trying
Box
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I eat mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but I think it should be enjoyed on occasion - like cheesecake or blackouts.
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Cheesecake
Enjoyed
Meat
Thinking
Vegetarian
Mostly
Occasion
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North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
America
Chocolate
Cooking
Dark
North America
Providing
Vanilla
Cooking Show
Double
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My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.
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Boat
Night
Parent
Nights
Italy
Stinking
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You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
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Grandmother
Looks
Stars
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Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Space
Children
Fantastic
Fun
Julia
Stuck
Time Good Space
Space Time Good
Have Fun
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You don't have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I'd pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.
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Chef
Taste
Best Food World
Pit
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I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes.
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Conversation
Grew Up
Nuts
Polite
Tomatoes
Chopped
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Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.
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Home
Ducks
Granite
Likes
Mean
Counter
Cook
Decorate
Duck
Meal
Tops
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First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Firsts
Important
Make Yourself Happy
Foremost
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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I believe that anyone can cook a great meal. Basically all you need to do is get your hands on some fresh ingredients and not be afraid to make a mess in the kitchen.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Believe
Fresh Ingredients
Hands
Ingredients
Kitchen
Mess
Great Believe I Believe
Cook
Fresh
Meal
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Beans
Bread
Dieting
Dinner
Giving
Grain
Rice
Satisfaction
Stew
Awesome
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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Presentation
Slap
Onto
Plate
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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Cooking
Looks
Years
Somewhere
Camera
Cooking Show
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You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good.
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Taste
Concept
Decorative
Gotta
Hors
Onto
Placing
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.
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Baby
Chocolate
Scratches
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Carrots
Chocolate
Fresh Ingredients
Ingredients
Pudding
Soy
Your Look Feel
Cook
Look Way Feel
Scratch
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People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Beautiful
Punk
Refined
Smart
Thinking
Vocabulary
Beautiful Thing
Complex
Rocker
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I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Cake
Comedian
Fun
Italian
Italian Family
Life Family Food
Center
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I always have a good quality extra virgin olive oil. A cheap quality oil will end up cheapening your dishes. And I love sweetening my dishes with maple syrup. It has a bit of a bitter kick at the end that works wonderfully in savory dishes.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Quality
Bitter
Dishes
Good Quality
Maple
Oil
Olive Oil
Sweet Love
Syrup
Love Good Always
Cheap
Extra
Olive
Virgin Olive Oil
Wonderfully
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Home
All Things
Flavor
Lifestyle
Return
Thinking
This Generation
Martha
Martha Stewart
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I did skit comedy online for many years, beginning around 2001. Around 2006 I started watching a lot of food television and got re-interested in food. I come from a very food-obsessed family. But I also wanted to do my own thing, which was the comedy.
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Comedy
Online
Skit
Television
Years
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I'm addicted to laughing. I go to see a lot of comedy shows. I'm addicted to playing really loud and obnoxious rock music in my car. I'm addicted to beautiful clothes and shoes. I just love gorgeous stuff and work hard to acquire pretty things, shiny things. I'm addicted to shiny things!
Nadia Giosia / Chef
Acquire
Beautiful
Beautiful Clothes
Comedy Shows
Gorgeous
Hard Work
Laughing
Loud
Obnoxious
Pretty Things
Rock Music
Rocks
Shiny
Work Hard
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