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Lidia Bastianich is an American chef and host of various tv shows about cooking.

Biography

She was born Lidia Motika on 11 October1947 in the Istrian city of Pula, Croatia (then Yugoslavia.) Her family name was changed to Maticchio under Mussolini's Fascist Italian dictatorship between the two world wars, then changed back to Motika under Tito's Yugoslav dictatorship. She and her family left Istria, for Trieste, Italy, when she was ten years old and lived in a refugee camp for some months, but then took employment as domestics for a wealthy Triestin family until they gained visas to emigrate to the U.S. in 1958.

She married Felice (aka Felix) Bastianich, a fellow Istrian, in 1966 when she was 19, and they built a restaurant empire together. The couple divorced after 31 years of marriage and 2 children. After a brief attempt to change her professional name to Moticchia, she now retains the married name which is widely known in the culinary industry. Her children are now in business with their mother; her son Joseph is a succesful restaurateur in his own right.

Lidia is the co-owner of "Felidia" and "Becco" and "Esca" restaurants in New York and "Lidia's" in Kansas City as well as "Lidia's Pittsburgh" (opened in 2002), as well as the host of her own TV cooking show called Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen, a 52-part PBS series. She is the author of three cookbooks whose titles paralleled her long running TV series. She is also the owner of various commercial enterprises that are linked to food, cooking and travel.

She also has a show called Lidia's Family Table that currently screens on various PBS channels.

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