Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business.

Lidia Bastianich, 76, was born in Istria ... Well, you will see. It’s a biography, sort of, a “growing up with Lidia,” because I’ve been 25 years on television. A lot of the people ...

Culinary icon, cookbook author and host Lidia Bastianich will be taking the MasterChef stage to help judge the auditions ...

Lidia Bastianich throws a national spotlight on progressive chefs, farmers and entrepreneurs around the U.S. striving to change the future of food – whether by increasing local access to produce ...

Lidia Bastianich’s latest television special will focus on the future of food in America. “Lidia Celebrates America: ...

Bastianich has created Daytime Emmy Award-winning cooking shows over the last 25 years on PBS, including “Lidia’s Kitchen.” The 77-year-old chef has also published numerous cookbooks.

Experience Lidia Bastianich's career as a chef took off when she began cooking her own dishes at Buonavia, the first restaurant she opened with her then-husband Felice in Queens, New York ...