Celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich knows a thing or two about making world-class Italian risotto. This is the crucial ingredient ...

You don't need to dump your pasta and all of its useful cooking water into a colander. Chef Lidia Bastianich uses a tool that ...

Professional chefs commonly enjoy a wide variety of flavors and celebrate them in their cooking. However, there is one herb that Lidia Bastianich can't stand.

I recently described chef Lidia Bastianich to a colleague as the “first lady of Italian cooking in the United States” — ...

Think of a pasta dish without the pasta. That’s gnudi, which means “naked dumpling.” The story goes that these delicious mouthfuls of flavor were invented in Florence when, during a meal, the ravioli ...

Lidia Bastianich cooks garlic pasta at SAME Café, where meals are earned with time, produce, or pay. At SAME Café, in Denver, CO, you can pay for your meal by volunteering your time, donating what you ...

Lidia Mattichio Bastianich is one of the best-loved chefs on public television, a best-selling cookbook author, restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. Her current ...

NEW YORK – Lidia Bastianich grew up in a small town in Italy where neighbors were like extended family. If kids came home from school and mom was out, they went to the neighbors for a snack. If ...