Culture

Lidia Celebrates America

Beloved chef and Italian immigrant, Lidia Bastianich, travels from big cities to small towns in America to share the inspiring stories of first, second, and third-generation Americans forging their own way, and shaping the shifting definition of what it means to be an American.

Lidia Cooks Mussels Triestina

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.

Episodes

  • Lidia Cooks Mussels Triestina: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Julia Child’s Favorite Mushroom Risotto: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Making Eggs Jeannette with Jacques Pépin: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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

  • Lidia Celebrates America Promo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lidia Celebrates America Promo

    30s

    Join celebrity chef and author Lidia Bastianich as she travels across the United States in a celebration of culture through food. LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA explores the American immigrant experience through its festivities. Lidia listens as multiple generations of Americans explain the importance of food in preserving cultural traditions.

  • Holiday Tables & Traditions - Preview: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Holiday Tables & Traditions - Preview

    30s

    Join Lidia for an Italian Christmas Eve feast, a Mexican-American Christmas Day, a Chinese New Year feast and a Jewish-American Passover seder.

Schedule

  • Lidia Celebrates America: Flavors That Define Us: TVSS: Iconic

    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.
  • Lidia Celebrates America: Flavors That Define Us: TVSS: Iconic

    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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