With Cooking Channel's Laura Vitale, what you see really is what you get.

Vitale, a native of Italy but has been a resident of Atlantic County since age 12, is a self-taught 29-year-old culinary personality who earned her stripes as the star of her self-created Web series "Laura in the Kitchen."

Vitale, regarded for her mix of all-American charm and Italian culinary sensibilities, launched the show in 2010 after her father's restaurant, La Riviera in Camden, where she was a chef, shuttered and left her jobless. 

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