Bastianich opened her first big restaurant, the now-closed Felidia, with her then husband, Felice, in 1981. It’s there that she was discovered by Julia Child , who liked her risotto and ...

In 1971, she and husband Felice "Felix" Bastianich, founded their first restaurant in Queens, N.Y. Today, she's one of the best-known chefs in the world, a best-selling author, ...

Bastianich's new cookbook, "Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine," (Alfred A. Knopf, $37.50) is part recipe guide, part meditation on history and ingredients.

The new agreement returns control of the restaurants to the family, who have been working together since the 1970s, when Lidia Bastianich and her husband, Felice Bastianich, opened their first ...

Joe Bastianich tells it like it is. So it should come as no surprise that his new book “Restaurant Man” is a brutally honest account of his rise from a self-proclaimed Queens “punk” to a ...