Bastianich and her daughter give a magnificent master class in Italian cooking in their latest culinary collaboration, following 2013’s Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking. Their book begins ...

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 ...

Cornmeal was a staple in Lidia’s childhood in Italy. "I recall this simple… With this recipe from Lidia's Italy, it isn’t hard to make feather-light gnocchi. The main thing to keep in mind ...

The latest from powerhouse Bastianich (Lidia’s Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine), written with daughter Manuali, highlights an issue that plagues authors of Italian cookbooks: with so many ...

Lidia’s love of food, cooking, and its ability to connect family ... that involved temporary separation from her father in Italy, they registered as refugees and lived in a refugee camp in ...