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Lidia Bastianich, Interview 1: March 24, 2011
- Permalink:
- https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/fbg79d78
- Interview Title:
- Lidia Bastianich, Interview 1: March 24, 2011
- Description:
- This interview covers Lidia Bastianich's background and early life in Italy and the United States, and the start of her cooking career both in restaurants and on television.
- Narrator Name:
- Lidia Bastianich
- Narrator Biography:
- The acclaimed cookbook author, television personality, restaurateur, chef and businesswoman Lidia Bastianich was a little girl when the Catholic Charities rescued her family from a Displaced Persons camp in Italy and brought them to the United States after their native Istria was was absorbed by Yugoslavia and communism. Growing up in Queens, Bastianich originally hoped to become a pediatrician. But years helping to cook for her family, a part-time job in a local bakery while she was still in school and marriage to an Italian man working in the restaurant business reoriented her life. Today she is one of the best-known chefs in the United States, thanks to her ongoing popular cooking programs on PBS and her many cookbooks. With her son Joseph Bastianich and chef Mario Batali, she is also a partner in a mini-empire of Italian restaurants in New York, Kansas City and Pittsburgh. This interview tracks over her early life in Italy and America, her young adulthood, her marriage and first restaurants in Queens with her husband, their entry into the New York restaurant world with the acclaimed Felidia, the challenges of being a mother at the same time she ran the restaurant and the growth of her business since then. Throughout it all, Bastianich has made her family an important part of her business and of her television series.
- Interviewer Name:
- Judith Weinraub
- Interview Number:
- 1
- Date:
- 2011-03-24
- Total Length of Interview:
- 1 hour, 25 minutes
- Segment 1 Duration:
- 1:24:39
- Segment 1 Transcript:
- https://sites.dlib.nyu.edu/media/api/v0/service/fileserver/av/fales/beard/Bastianich_Lidia-interview_1/Bastianich_Lidia-2011_03_24-interview.precision.en.txt
- Topics:
- Cooking - Italian Cooking Shows Dinners and dining Immigration Restaurants
- People:
- Bastianich, Joseph Bastianich, Lidia Batali, Mario Child, Julia Manuali, Tanya Bastianich Nicotra, Fortunato
- Organizations:
- Felidia (Restaurant)
- Places:
- Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) Yugoslavia
- Next Interview:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/lb_04_04_2011.html
- File Type:
- sound
- Resource Type:
- oral histories (literary works)
- NYU Call Number:
- MSS_309.ref139.1
- Object Identifier:
- lb_03_24_2011
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Lidia Bastianich, Interview 1: March 24, 2011", Voices from the Food Revolution- People Who Changed The Way Americans Eat, NYU Fales Library
- Reference Link:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team3/items/lb_03_24_2011.html