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Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Bastianich
American Chef
Born: Feb 21, 1947
Family Food Love Me People You
Related authors: Bobby Flay Christina Tosi David Chang Emeril Lagasse Giada De Laurentiis Julia Child Samin Nosrat Thomas Keller
I am blessed that the food business is good for me. Good to me. Lidia Bastianich
Good Food Me Business Blessed Am
Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn't know how to answer it, I will answer. Lidia Bastianich
Will Recipe Online More Generations Like Know Answer How Questions Staff Them Younger Ask Younger Generations
If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection. Lidia Bastianich
Love Food Me You Communication Affection Medium Like Expression
When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man. Lidia Bastianich
Man Woman Young Else Everyone Everyone Else New French Chef Italian York New York Started
You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know. Lidia Bastianich
Food You Culture Mother Whatever Own Feel Know Comfortable Culinary Just Grandmother Should Your
Match the right food to the right occasion. Think about what you are celebrating. If you are honoring people, what are their favorite foods? If it is a holiday, what is the food for it? When you give an identity to the party, people appreciate that. Lidia Bastianich
Food You People Party Think Honoring Favorite About Give Foods Identity Occasion Match Celebrating Holiday Right Appreciate
It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way. Lidia Bastianich
Life Fly Important Own Way Shadow Support Along Make Understood Children Decisions Them Create Needed
America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity. Lidia Bastianich
Great Strong Difficult Identity Makes Cultures America Which Create Many
The filming happens in my home, and I cook like I do at home, on my home stove with my house pots and so on. That's who I am. I am very true to my real profile. Lidia Bastianich
Home Stove Pots True Like House Am Real Very Happens Cook Who Profile Filming
Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career. Lidia Bastianich
Family You Challenges Balance Women Stove Challenge Demanding On And Off Way Find Some Physically Kitchen Pots Lifting Like Industry Learn How Off Heavy Biggest Biggest Challenge Career Adapt
I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening. Lidia Bastianich
Love You People Listening Telling Know Because Stories Why
Food is the common language for all of us. Lidia Bastianich
Food Language Common Common Language Us
My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American. Lidia Bastianich
Success Great Me Nurture Feel Also Continue Italian Cultures Very American Behind Success Is Two
I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust. Lidia Bastianich
Trust Important Think Books Restaurants Develop Most Always Sell The Most Important Full Growth
I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture. Lidia Bastianich
Culture Entertainer Share Want Them Teach Viewers Show
I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is German. And I did a little research - his mother was a chef. Lidia Bastianich
Mother Before Research Francis Him Chef Were His German Did Little Cooked Pope Here Two
Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion. Lidia Bastianich
Digestion Eat How Italians Very Conscious
Italy is so influenced by others: couscous in the south, cinnamon in the north because of the Venetian spice trade - I just want to divulge as much information as I can. Lidia Bastianich
Others Spice Because Trade South Italy North Just Influenced Want Information Much
Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique. Lidia Bastianich
Cooking Responding About Ingredients Specifically Technique
Nature recharges me. Lidia Bastianich
Nature Me
A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour. Lidia Bastianich
Time You Yourself Half Meal Complete Seven Minutes More Take Hour Perhaps Make Box Got Than Oil Spaghetti Then Cook Whole Garlic Thing Olive Olive Oil Sauce
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