Lidia prepares Italian sweets, including a parfait, zabaglione and cookies. Italian sweets are today’s focus and include: Blueberry and Ricotta Parfait; Chocolate Zabaglione and Raspberry & Walnut ...

Italian-American cuisine queen, cookbook writer, prolific restaurateur and PBS television host Lidia Bastianich will be at the Tattered Cover today to sign her new holiday autobiographical read, Nonna ...

She arrived in New York at the age of 12 in 1958. Half a century later, she’s a cooking icon with five cookbooks, four television series and six restaurants to her name. Bastianich’s most recent PBS ...

NEW YORK — Lidia Bastianich grew up in a small town in Italy where neighbors were like extended family. If kids came home from school and mom was out, they went to the neighbors for a snack. If ...