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Lidia Bastianich Looks Back on Her Roots

Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy Award-winning television personality, entrepreneur and author of many books on Italian cooking. She shares some of the early stories and memories from her extensive career.

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By Evan Kleiman • Dec 18, 2015 • 1 min read

Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy Award-winning television personality, entrepreneur and author of many books on Italian cooking. She shares some of the early stories and memories from her extensive career. Her latest cookbook, which she cowrote with daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali, is Lidia’s Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine: Everything You Need to Know to Be a Great Italian Cook.

We've got a recipe for her Meatballs with Eggplant on the Good Food blog.

Music: "Fragments" by Autamata

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