"While you can see by simply scanning Laurentiis's recipes that she's a big fan of the high-health-ranking Mediterranean diet, she has also admitted as much herself. While talking to Food & Wine, Laurentiis said, "The Mediterranean diet has gained so much worldwide recognition for a reason. It is built on the foundation of using really good, simple ingredients to make extremely flavorful dishes. That mentality has shaped everything I've done in my career in the kitchen.""
"What makes the Mediterranean diet work? Simple - it's a way of eating that includes more of the foods that studies show can add years to your life, and less of the foods that don't. Apart from being born in Rome, Italy and eating a Mediterranean diet through her early childhood, this is only part of the reason why Giada de Laurentiis leans on it so heavily in her own recipes."
Giada de Laurentiis centers her recipes on Mediterranean-diet principles, prioritizing fresh ingredients such as greens, tomatoes, olives, artichokes, and other vegetables while excluding her least-favored vegetable. She favors lean meats and fish, often grilling them, and uses olive oil for richness. She describes the Mediterranean diet as founded on really good, simple ingredients to make extremely flavorful dishes, which has shaped her kitchen approach. The diet emphasizes nutritious whole foods, grains, and olive oil, reduces processed foods, saturated fats, and empty carbohydrates, limits red meat, and encourages lean proteins and plant-based eating.
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