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Article: The best of Italy; Lidia Bastianich's latest cookbook takes readers on cultural journey.(FOOD)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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Byline: Barbara M. Houle
Cookbooks just keep coming, but Lidia Matticchio Bastianich goes beyond the basics in "Lidia's Italy: 140 Simple and Delicious Recipes From the Ten Places In Italy Lidia Loves Most" (Alfred A. Knopf, $35).
The famed cooking show host and restaurateur takes fans on a cultural journey that begins in Istria (now part of Croatia), where Bastianich was born, and where her fondest memories are of the time she spent with her grandmother Rosa. "Money was not plentiful then, but life was rich and flavorful," she writes. My maternal grandparents were self-reliant and produced most of the things we ate. They made wine, distilled grappa and ...
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