Lidia Bastianich

Lidia is the co-owner with her son Joseph of Felidia and Becco restaurants in New York and Lidia’s in Kansas City and Pittsburg. She is also the star of Lidia’s Italian American Kitchen and Lidia’s Italian Table, shown nationwide on Public Television and in Australia, Canada and Japan. She also has two sauce lines, Lidia’s Flavors of Italy and another line produced exclusively for Williams Sonoma. Together with her daughter, Tanya, an art historian, she runs Esperienze Italiane, a high end food, wine and cultural tour company to Italy. She is the author of three cookbooks, Lidia’s Italian American Kitchen, Lidia’s Italian Table and La Cucina di Lidia, and she writes a monthly syndicated column distributed by Universal Press on Italian food. Lidia is a passionate chef, communicator and teacher who shares her knowledge ever more with culinary students and her audiences through television, books, articles and her restaurants.