Lidia Bastianich

Cooking for somebody is very personal.

— Lidia Bastianich

Nature recharges me.

— Lidia Bastianich

Cooking is good therapy for me.

— Lidia Bastianich

I love making apple strudel.

— Lidia Bastianich

Italians are very conscious of what they eat, how they eat, and its digestion.

— Lidia Bastianich

Julia Child came to my house and wanted a lesson in making risotto.

— Lidia Bastianich

I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.

— Lidia Bastianich

Make your refrigerator or freezer like a treasure chest.

— Lidia Bastianich

Food is the common language for all of us.

— Lidia Bastianich

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

— Lidia Bastianich

Food is all about the story of a people through the ages.

— Lidia Bastianich

My grandmother was the genesis of my connection and passion to food.

— Lidia Bastianich

There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America…

— Lidia Bastianich

Lambruscos have been misrepresented by industrial versions that have the soda pop flavor they think Americans want.

— Lidia Bastianich

For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy…

— Lidia Bastianich

I love that I've become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love…

— Lidia Bastianich

Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique.

— Lidia Bastianich

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…

— Lidia Bastianich

When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was…

— Lidia Bastianich

I started in the restaurant industry when I was 22, so I've had quite a long tenure, if you will.

— Lidia Bastianich

It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be…

— Lidia Bastianich

I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is…

— Lidia Bastianich

What really makes your business is your workers - their commitment, their knowledge, how you train them, how you treat them. They…

— Lidia Bastianich

Choose recipes like a base recipe; make a big pot of soup and freeze it. From then on, you can take it…

— Lidia Bastianich

A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic,…

— Lidia Bastianich

When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat…

— Lidia Bastianich

Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it…

— Lidia Bastianich

Match the right food to the right occasion. Think about what you are celebrating. If you are honoring people, what are their…

— Lidia Bastianich

With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in…

— Lidia Bastianich

I think traditions change and modify with each generation. With new members joining the family, their customs and traditions have to be…

— Lidia Bastianich

I cherish my beautiful Italian heritage.

— Lidia Bastianich

I am blessed that the food business is good for me. Good to me.

— Lidia Bastianich

I think a ricotta cheesecake is very easy to make.

— Lidia Bastianich

I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy.

— Lidia Bastianich

Today's innovation is tomorrow's tradition.

— Lidia Bastianich

I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24.

— Lidia Bastianich

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

— Lidia Bastianich

Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry.

— Lidia Bastianich

I just love engaging a live audience - I love that.

— Lidia Bastianich

Why do you think millennials are so into food? It's the way they relate to each other.

— Lidia Bastianich