we are joined by one of our faves from her kitchen in la, giada de laurentiis. >> two for the price of of them can be found in giada's new best selling book, "eat better, feel better." always good to see you thanks for coming back >> hi, guys, good morning. >> good morning, giada >> what's the story on this new cookbook >> oh, you know, this new cookbook is a little bit lighter than the ones i've had in the past, talking a lot about my journey to feeling better. i wasn't so well in my early 40s after working and having a child and i had chronic sinus infections and was always sick so i had to find a way to eat the things i love but, you know, reduce things like sugar and refined carbs and grains and gluten and dairy, you know, some of the regular culprits. so this book has a three-day reboot where you can clean all that stuff out for three days and slowly reintroduce stuff back in. so you get to eat all the things you like and still feel great. >> so what are we eating today >> we're going to make a raspberry vinaigrette. for a great salad for picnics, at home, as a side, or as a lunch

. >>> and coming up tomorrow on "today," giada de laurentiis so if you are trying to slim down for summert a check of the weather. here we go >> announcer: today's weather is brought to you by dove advanced care antiperspirant, effective protection kind to skin. >> this weekend, a tropical storm system existing north carolina today we have winds from the northeast stretching down to the gulf coast with strong rain, damaging hail cooler behind the front. it is feeling different back through the middle of the country for today. as we go into the middle of the week, the warm temperatures work right back in. we're getting back into the 90s, in the southwest, but at least that's more typical for this time of year not as exceptionally hot as it has been that cooler weather will make its way to the east coast with highs in the 70s and rain out in the southeast. on friday, summertime pop-up storms will begin to develop back through the great lakes and midwest. it's mild, dry and beautiful up and down the east coast except down in florida where we have some rain and the extreme heat will start to