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Giada De Laurentiis shared why she pronounces dishes and ingredients with an Italian accent on her shows in an Instagram video on Aug. 26

The celebrity chef said her parents "insisted" the family speak Italian at home when she was a child

"When I started on Food Network, it didn’t occur to me to not pronounce those words correctly," she said

Giada De Laurentiis is opening up about her authentically Italian pronunciations as a TV host.

The celebrity chef addressed the topic in an Instagram video on Tuesday, Aug. 26, saying she got questions about it from fans after asking what they wanted to know about her career.

“One of the things that came up was the pronunciation of dishes and ingredients from my shows,” she said.

“Honestly, I moved here in elementary school from Ro

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