Television cook Lidia Bastianich shares over two hundred recipes for Italian foods, including appetizers and salads, soups, pastas, polentas and risottos, vegetables, seafood, poultry, meats, and fruit desserts.

Presents 175 recipes for Italian fare from chef Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, covering all dishes from appetizers through desserts, and includes full-color photographs.

Italian-American chef Lidia Bastianich shares her memories of the Christmases she spent in Italy, where she learned to cook with her Nonna Rosa, and provides holiday recipes and decorating ideas.

Chef Lidia Bastianich shares the stories behind the great pantry-inspired recipes that her family has been eating for years--in both good times and challenging ones.

Chef and Italian immigrant Lidia Bastianich shares stories of first, second and third-generation Americans shaping the shifting definition of what it means to be an American. As America grows more diverse than ever before, immigrants must figure out how much of their culture to keep and what to leave behind, and many are more openly sharing their heritage with a new country they now call home.