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25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee

Beloved chef Lidia Bastianich is celebrating 25 years on public television. With one of the longest running cooking shows on PBS, Lidia is also a life-long restaurateur and bestselling cookbook author. In honor of her silver anniversary, join Lidia’s family and celebrity friends to roll back the years and get an intimate look at the memorable moments of her life, both on and off the screen.

25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee

55m 26s

Beloved chef Lidia Bastianich is celebrating 25 years on public television. With one of the longest running cooking shows on PBS, Lidia is also a life-long restaurateur and bestselling cookbook author. In honor of her silver anniversary, join Lidia’s family and celebrity friends to roll back the years and get an intimate look at the memorable moments of her life, both on and off the screen.

Episodes

  • 25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee

    S2023 E1 - 55m 26s

    Beloved chef Lidia Bastianich is celebrating 25 years on public television. With one of the longest running cooking shows on PBS, Lidia is also a life-long restaurateur and bestselling cookbook author. In honor of her silver anniversary, join Lidia’s family and celebrity friends to roll back the years and get an intimate look at the memorable moments of her life, both on and off the screen.

Extras + Features

  • Discovering Lidia: The First Restaurant: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Discovering Lidia: The First Restaurant

    S2023 E1 - 3m 16s

    As a young woman in New York, Lidia was curious about what Americans considered “Italian” food. One of her first dates with husband-to-be, Felice, was at the legendary Manhattan restaurant ‘Mamma Leone’s’. Watch as Lidia visits the NY Public Library to peruse the old menu. What were the plans for Buonavia, the first restaurant Lidia and Felice opened, and what did working there awaken in Lidia?

  • Lidia's 25th Anniversary Dinner: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lidia's 25th Anniversary Dinner

    S2023 E1 - 4m 10s

    To cap off 25 years of cooking on PBS, Lidia hosts a celebratory dinner. The guest list includes friends she feels have been instrumental to her life and career: Actor Christopher Walken and his wife Georgianne, Restaurateur Geoffrey Zakarian, Lidia’s first TV producer Geoffrey Drummond, Restaurateur Angelo Vivolo, and Chef Jacques Pépin. Hear these celebrity guests toast their dear friend Lidia.

  • Kids in the Kitchen: Lidia and the Importance of Family: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Kids in the Kitchen: Lidia and the Importance of Family

    S2023 E1 - 4m 52s

    On television, Lidia presented food as a family adventure, demonstrating how easily kids can be involved and enjoy cooking. Lidia’s two children and five grandchildren fell in love with food because of the joy Lidia brought to the kitchen. Watch her teaching her grandchildren to make gnocchi when they were little (and also as adults) and hear what they have to say about their famous grandmother.

  • The Teenage Years: Astoria, Queens, NY: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Teenage Years: Astoria, Queens, NY

    S2023 E1 - 5m 9s

    When and how did Lidia begin to love cooking? What was it like to be an immigrant in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, NY, in the late 1950’s, and early 1960s? Find out in this clip, as Lidia reminisces with one of her oldest friends about their formative teenage years. And Christopher Walken remembers a young Lidia who, at age 14, began working in his father's bakery?

  • Lidia Celebrates America and The COVID-19 Pandemic: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Lidia Celebrates America and The COVID-19 Pandemic

    S2023 E1 - 4m 47s

    Lidia approached PBS about making Lidia Celebrates America, a show that encourages viewers to embrace different cultures through food. Visiting with families across the United States, she proves you can have a good time and eat well while you’re doing it! See how the show navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, and watch Lidia share some very special moments with her late mother.

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