Lidia Bastianich

Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy Award–winning public television host, best-selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Most importantly, she has accomplished all of this by marrying her two passions in life—her family and food—to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children, Joseph and Tanya.

Lidia has published numerous cookbooks— coauthored with her daughter, Tanya—and companion books to her Emmy-winning television series Lidia’s Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy in America and Lidia’s Italy. Her most recent book is Lidia’s A Pot, a Pan and a Bowl, a companion to her new twenty-six-part public television series, Lidia’s Kitchen: Home Cooking. She is also the author of the English and Italian version of her memoir, My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food. Lidia’s cooking shows air nationwide in the United States on public television and CREATE, internationally, and on various digital networks, including Amazon Prime, Tubi TV and Xumo. Her cooking segments are also part of her TUTTOLIDIA YouTube channel.