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I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food. Lidia Bastianich
Food Simple Approach Person Interested Average Straightforward Average Person Connect
If I'm not tasting wine and food... I'm thinking about wine and food. If I'm not thinking about wine and food... I'm writing about wine and food. Lidia Bastianich
Food Writing Wine Thinking About Tasting
When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at home. It was the food of immigrants who came here and made use of the ingredients they had. Lidia Bastianich
Food Home Made First Italian Food Recognized Immigrants Ate Never Had Know Came Italian Italian-American American Anything Ingredients Use Who Here
Why do you think millennials are so into food? It's the way they relate to each other. Lidia Bastianich
Food You Think Other Relate Way Each Why Millennials
Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil. Lidia Bastianich
You Simplicity Vegetables Preparation Final Adding Way Easy Dash Make Italian Oil Dishes Elaborate Then Decorating Olive Olive Oil Herbs
I love making apple strudel. Lidia Bastianich
Love Making Apple
What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory. Lidia Bastianich
Memory Remember Made Sugar Honey Our Top Bit Stays Piece Continuously Goat Child Just Just A Little Bit Bread Little Flavor Little Bit Grandmother Used
I just love engaging a live audience - I love that. Lidia Bastianich
Love Live Live Audience Audience Just Engaging
Whether you talk about the olive oil, whether you talk about Aceto Balsamico, whether you talk about Grana Padano, whether you talk about Mozzarella di Bufala. These are all traditional Italian products that are hard to beat, and they're easy to transport and buy. You don't have to do much around it. Just eat them. Lidia Bastianich
Buy You Easy Eat About Beat Talk Around Traditional Italian Just Oil Whether Them Much Hard Transport Products Olive Olive Oil
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
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