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A Day in the Life of Star Chef Giada De Laurentiis

She Gets Staff Members to Do All the Tasting

When it comes to food, too much of anything can become a problem. Being an Italian chef, Giada naturally cooks a lot of pasta. She can’t realistically indulge in all those taste tests if she wants to stick to her health and fitness goals.

Giada cleaning up plated food waiting to be served.

Photo by Manny Hernandez / Getty Images

So, she has staff that stands in whenever a taste test is due. A cool job, right? These shots are always shot as close-ups so that no one watching the show can really tell that a different woman is tasting the pasta. Other times, as we now know, the food will go straight into the dump bucket.