Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, Chef & Author

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is the author of thirteen best-selling cookbooks, successful restaurateur, and the Emmy award-winning host of public television’s Lidia’s Kitchen. Her newest book, My American Dream, is a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto. Lidia tells in great, vivid detail the fulfillment of that dream: her close-knit family, her dedication and endless passion for food that ultimately leads to multiple restaurants, many cookbooks, and twenty years on public television as the host of her own cooking show.