Giada De Laurentiis is coming to Kansas City in April

Chef Giada De Laurentiis is talking her home act on the road. The popular host of the Food Network’s Giada at Home will be coming to the Midland (1228 Main) on Thursday, April 5. Conversations with Giada, put on by Rainy Day Books, is part of a multicity book-signing tour that begins for De Laurentiis on March 27, the same day her new cookbook, Weeknights With Giada, is released. The focus of the new book is meals that can be made in 30 minutes or less — pizza, sandwiches and soups.

The show starts at 8 p.m., and the doors open an hour earlier. Tickets are $45 and include an autographed copy of her cookbook, Weeknights With Giada.