In the Kitchen: Italian Cooking with Lidia Bastianich

July 3, 2009 by melanien  
Filed under Food and Wine, In The Kitchen

It may just be pasta to you, but to Lidia Bastianich, this simple starch is life.
Lidia immigrated to the U.S. at the age of 12 and eventually settled with her family near Queens, New York. To help out financially, then 14-year-old Lidia took a job at a bakery called Walken’s Bakery, owned by the parents [...]