Bobby Flay Said Filming With Giada De Laurentiis In Italy Felt Like An 'Extended Vacation'
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It's been almost a year since we've been able to safely travel, and so many are missing exploring new places, meeting up with friends, and eating a ton of new food. And while it's not time to go exploring again just yet, the next best thing is watching a pair of pals living out your traveling dreams, which is what makes Bobby and Giada In Italy SO much fun.
The show, which is available for streaming on discovery+ now, shows Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis traveling around Italy pre-pandemic, cooking and eating amazing food, and just generally enjoying each other's company. And when Delish spoke with Bobby recently, he told us that it was all exactly as fun as it looked.
"It's almost like we were on some sort of extended vacation, but we're also working at the same time," he explained. "We were just in a great mood the entire time. We got along great. We always have a great time together."
In fact, Bobby said something about Italy makes both him and Giada (who was born in Rome) happy and relaxed, so it was fun to explore everything the country had to offer together and to bring viewers along for the ride.
"I love Giada in Italy—like the person, not just the show—because she's so relaxed there. And I feel the same way," he explained.
Once you watch the show, it's easy to see why. You'll see the pair tasting mountains of gelato (Bobby calls himself a "freak" for the stuff!), munching on porchetta sandwiches, and even making fettuccine with wild boar ragu, just to name a few activities. The show follows them visiting Rome and Tuscany, so you'll get a little bit of the city as well as a little bit of the countryside.
It's not lost on Bobby that watching the show during the COVID-19 pandemic is sure to make us all get the itch to travel. But he also said watching it back has given him hope that we'll all be back to traveling safely soon.
"It's been really hard for everyone. So it was actually a really nice moment to kind of take your mind away from what was going on, and just sort of [see] some...normalcy, in the world," he explained: "Rome has been there for some time, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. And to be able to experience that, what it did for me personally was that it gave me hope for the future—that we're going to be back to that at some point."
If all of this has made you as hungry as it has made us, you're going to binge the whole show. It is available on discovery+ right now, and Verizon’s partnership with the streaming service allows Verizon customers with Unlimited plans to enjoy up to 12 months of discovery+ for free. New customers who sign-up for Fios Gigabit Connection can also receive 12 months of discovery+ on Verizon. Once you have that, all that's left to do is pop some focaccia in the oven and enjoy!
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