Things You Probably Didn't Know About Laura In The Kitchen

Laura in the Kitchen star Laura Vitale has been carving out a niche in the YouTube cooking universe ever since the launch of her first video in 2010. Whether you're a longtime fan or a new one, here's what all foodies need to know about Laura in the Kitchen.

In the mid '90s, Laura's father emigrated from Italy to the U.S., ultimately settling in New Jersey, where he opened Italian pizzerias in the town of Deptford and the city of Camden. By 1998, an already fearless and ambitious 12-year-old Laura left her mother, brother, grandparents, and extended family in Naples and flew across the Atlantic to join her father.

Adapting to Jersey life was initially tough - Vitale deeply missed her family in Italy. Her antidote to homesickness was learning how to make her nonna's favorite Neapolitan dishes, while receiving instruction from her grandmother, long-distance, over the phone.

She confessed on her YouTube channel that the very first thing she made on her own was what she called "Sunday sauce", a painstakingly slow-cooked, thick-as-gravy ragú featuring tomatoes and meat, and served with pasta. She admitted,

"It brought me back home in a way and made me feel better."

Another antidote for her homesickness was her nonna's potato gnocchi, which Vitale called her "favorite dish of all time." That said, Vitale admitted she won't touch the stuff unless she knows it's been cooked to perfection for at least six hours. She once sassily warned celebrity chef Eric Ripert,

"If you cook it for two hours, I'm not going to eat it."

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Watching the news | 1:40
Meeting Joe | 2:50
Unexpected success | 4:03
Raking in thousands | 4:58
Just a joke | 6:30
Freezer friend | 7:28
Demystifying pizza | 8:38
Thick skin | 9:40
Enough with the eyebrows | 10:53

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