Episodes
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Lidia Cooks Mussels Triestina
S1 E3 - 9m 24s
To accompany her latest special, Lidia also hosts a series of short cooking videos. Each reflects her beloved teaching style, mixed with a dash of storytelling. Today Lidia is in her kitchen making Mussels Triestina, a simple ten-minute dish that brings up memories of her childhood. Find out Lidia’s tricks of the trade for cooking mussels, things that give the dish her signature style.
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Julia Child’s Favorite Mushroom Risotto
S1 E2 - 8m 53s
To accompany her latest special, Lidia also hosts a series of short cooking videos. Each reflects her beloved teaching style, mixed with a dash of storytelling. Watch Lidia make Mushroom Risotto, while telling the story of opening her first restaurant, Felidia, as young woman. Hear what happened when Julia Child and James Beard came in to the restaurant asking specifically for the Risotto.
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Making Eggs Jeannette with Jacques Pépin
S1 E1 - 11m 28s
To accompany her latest special, Lidia also hosts a series of short cooking videos. Each reflects her beloved teaching style, mixed with a dash of storytelling. In this one, Lidia has her friend, and celebrated chef, Jacques Pépin in the kitchen! Watch them reminisce as they whip up one of Jacques favorite family favorites, ‘Eggs Jeannette,’ a stuffed egg recipe which he named after his mother.
Extras + Features
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Holiday for Heroes: Limoncello Tiramisu
1m 59s
Veteran Bryan Anderson explains the army tradition of creating desserts from leftover dessert rations, for their comrades celebrating birthdays. Lidia then shares her dessert, Limoncello Tiramisu with him – a fanciful homage to the MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) birthday cakes created by his platoon.
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Holiday for Heroes: Yonas Hagos
2m 18s
Yonas Hagos (Yorkville, IL) is a retired army staff sergeant who came to the USA from a refugee camp in Sudan at 10 years-old; he is also a Purple Heart recipient. In this clip Lidia tries Yonas's mother's wonderful cooking.
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Holiday for Heroes: Marlene Rodriquez
1m 57s
Marlene Rodriquez served three tours of Iraq before sustaining injuries that forced her to retire; she is one of only 500 women to be awarded the Purple Heart. In this clip she shows Lidia Bastianich her medal, and talks about what it means to her.
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Holiday for Heroes: Finding a Purpose Post Military
3m 16s
During the meal aboard the U.S.S. George Washington, veterans share with Lidia Bastianich and Bob Woodruff the difficulties involved in finding a purpose after the military. Lidia also tries her first MRE–Meals Ready to Eat.
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Holiday for Heroes: Bob Woodruff
2m 25s
Bob Woodruff, the acclaimed ABC news anchor injured by an IED in Iraq, talks about his experience.
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Holiday for Heroes: Willie Sherrer
3m 15s
Willie Sherrer struggled with alcoholism and homelessness before being accepted to Culinary Command, an elite program that trains vets in new careers as cooks; today he owns a barbeque enterprise in New England.
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Holiday for Heroes: August Dannehl's Special Dinner
3m 31s
August Dannehl is a retired navy sailor who, after being honorably discharged, trained as a filmmaker. With a passion for cooking, August works to create feasts that celebrate other vets. Here, he and Lidia have created a meal to honor veterans Edith Casas, Mike Dowling and Bryan Anderson.
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Holiday for Heroes - Preview
1m 46s
In the moving documentary special, 'Holiday for Heroes', internationally-acclaimed chef and food ambassador Lidia Bastianich pays homage to the men and women of our military and the truly life-saving sacrifices they make daily for our freedom.
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Home For the Holidays: Ann Curry
1m 32s
Japanese-American journalist, Ann Curry, shows Lidia around one of her favorite spots in New York City, the Sunrise Mart in Manhattan. She explains why she feels close to her late mother when she visits the market, and talks about how she and her family stay connected to her Japanese heritage.
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Home For the Holidays: Rita Moreno
1m 49s
What makes actress and singer Rita Moreno want to dance? Watch as she shows her friend, Lidia Bastianich, one of her favorite childhood dishes from Puerto Rico, a Picadillo recipe she makes herself when she has guests.
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Home For the Holidays: Lidia Goes Home
3m
Follow Lidia back to her homeland in Pula, a fortified seaport in Istria, where all her early food memories stem from. Lidia visits the market where she shopped, and sold vegetables, with her Grandmother, and returns to her grandmother's house where she found her passion for food.
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Home For the Holidays: Christopher Walken
1m 36s
Academy award winning American actor, Christopher Walken is an old friend of Lidia Bastianich. His father owned and operated a bakery, which a young Lidia Bastianich worked at. The first guest to arrive for the holiday dinner, Walken prepares a delicious dish with Lidia, which she coins 'Scallops A La Walken.'
Schedule
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Lidia Celebrates America
Flavors That Define Us
Monday
Apr 29
1 Hour
Chef Lidia Bastianich travels from big cities to small towns across the U.S. to hear stories about the heritage of first, second and third generation Americans. -
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Lidia Celebrates America
Flavors That Define Us
Tuesday
Apr 30
1 Hour
Chef Lidia Bastianich travels from big cities to small towns across the U.S. to hear stories about the heritage of first, second and third generation Americans.
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