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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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.'
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Home For the Holidays: Marcus Samuelsson
1m 43s
Born in Ethiopia, Marcus Samuelsson is a Swedish-raised chef and restaurateur. Her, he talks about what signifies Christmas for him, and why. Then he takes his friend Lidia Bastianich to his restaurant, Red Rooster, in Harlem, New York, where they cook up some Swedish meatballs.
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Home for the Holidays: Conversation About America
1m 44s
Set against a backdrop in which they share a deliciously diverse dinner, Lidia Bastianich's celebrity guests talk about what makes America the land of opportunity, and their dreams of making it in this country. The the meal represents the melting pot of flavors that are all part of celebrating Christmas in New York.
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Home for the Holidays - Preview
1m 14s
In this intimate, hour-long documentary special, Lidia celebrates her native Italian holiday traditions, along with the traditions of six celebrity guests. Combining the best of the old and the new, celebrity chef, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich shares her culinary customs with the diverse and varied special dishes of her invited dinner companions.
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Home for the Holidays - Short Preview
30s
In this intimate, hour-long documentary special, Lidia celebrates her native Italian holiday traditions, along with the traditions of six celebrity guests. Combining the best of the old and the new, celebrity chef, author and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich shares her culinary customs with the diverse and varied special dishes of her invited dinner companions.
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Life's Milestones - Preview
1m 37s
Renowned chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich continues her engaging cross-country journey – this time sharing with four families special rites of passage marking meaningful moments in life’s journey. Along her travels, Lidia is joined by notable guests, including reporter Nicole Petallides, chef/restaurateur Gabrielle Hamilton, singer Radmilla Cody, and chef Freddie Bitsoie.
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Life's Milestones - Short Preview
30s
Join host Lidia Bastianich as she celebrates important milestones with a diverse group of Americans.
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Freedom and Independence - Preview
31s
Join Lidia Bastianich to celebrate freedom and independence with different cultures across America.
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Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New - Highlights
4m 56s
Watch highlights from Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New airing Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 8pm ET on PBS. Check local listings.
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Lidia Celebrates America, "Weddings: Something Borrowed,...
30s
Join celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich and continue the celebration of culture through food with a focus on the traditions surrounding weddings. 4/17/2012
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Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New - Preview
31s
Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New airs Tuesday, April 17, 2012 at 8pm ET on PBS. Check local listings.
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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