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.

Bastianich loves to entertain, whether it's for a wedding or a relaxed get-together. Here she gives you everything you need to add the right amount of Italian flair to turn a weeknight dinner or a picnic with friends into a dining experience.

The host of "Lidia's Kitchen" shares a memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime in Yugoslavia, her years as a refugee while trying to enter the United States, and her early start as a restaurant worker.

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.