This is why I can't stop watching Giada DeLaurentiis

I'm watching "Giada at Home" right now. She and her aunt are cooking a rice dish that her grandmother used to make. Her aunt was talking about how the grandmother always worked on perfecting cooking rice but never gave her the recipes so on the night she (the grandmother) was dying, the only thing the aunt could think to do was cook rice for the family who was all there. So she started trying to deconstruct/reverse engineer the recipe. Now they're cooking it on Giada's show. So they're discussing the recipe and some of the choices (why hot sauce and not red pepper flakes) and trying to figure it out. And it is such a feeling of home and a depiction of the truth of so many families - so much love and joy in the food but no recipes. So next generations try to watch and learn and recreate.

That feeling of home is why I continue to watch Giada despite the overexpressive hand gestures.