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 ...