Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, best‐selling cookbook author, successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business.

Judges picked Piece-A-Cake on New Dorp Lane for best custard at the City Council Italian Caucus-organized St. Joseph’s Day ...

Lidia Bastianich has been cooking ’round the clock ... None of that grated cheese works because it loses some of the flavor.

And when it comes to perfecting the Italian dishes we love, nobody does it better than celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich.

Experience Lidia Bastianich's career as a chef took off when she began cooking her own dishes at Buonavia, the first restaurant she opened with her then-husband Felice in Queens, New York ...