What do you think about Lidia Bastianich?

I can't begin to tell you just how much I have learned from Lidia Bastianich!! Her subtleties and nuances are fantastic!! Less is more!!

Lidia is the best cook on television, a great teacher, has inspired me too get into the kitchen many times. I can almost smell the food she is cooking coming from the TV. She's a culinary treasure.

Lidia is an inspiration of talent, intelligence, charm, and wonderful recipes! Very practical, she is a wonderful teacher as well. Have seen her videos for years. Tutti a tabla per mangiare!

Love her show. I’m first generation Italian married to a first generation Croatian, so I have a kind of feeling for what her childhood must have been like. My husband’s siblings & mom were refugees in Egypt during WWII, while his dad was here & couldn’t find them. God bless her for all she does.

I just love her. Love her show. She’s the real deal for sure. Been watching her for many years.

LIdia has PASSION & DEDICATION !

She reminds me so much of my Mother. My Mom was a great cook and second generation Italian.

O I love her devotion to her mother that says a lot. And her cooking can't be beat

Love her! She is more than a chef! Her spirit welcomes you with encouragement , comfort, love, and belonging!

I love and admire you Lidia! Appreciate you share your history of life! Thank you ❤️

Lidia you are an incredible woman. I admire you! congratulations to all your family for hard work over the years! hope to see you soon!

'Seriously turning heads'? How so? I was expecting ... Lost 20 llbs ... Make-over by celebrity stylist ... New hair extensions... Clothes by D & G ... That said ... she is a great cook and businesswoman... and I like her TV show a lot ... But 'seriously turning heads'??? Click-bait propaganda is a pain in the posterior!

I learned how to cook differently with the same old ingredients watching her. She is an amazing person. Love her

I really enjoy watching Lidia cook. Her memories are priceless, and most Americans will never experience the food self-sufficency that she learned from her mother and grandmother. Since her little mother has recently passed on, that way of life slips further away.

A legendary chef. Amazing woman!

I can't remember PBS/Create without Lidia Bastianich present!!! 🙌🏾

I like her and learn alot watching her videos.

Yayyy for Lidia. I appreciate you, Lidia. Thanks for all of the great and wonderful things you're doing for humanity and thanks for all the dishes you've prepared and shared.

Lidia is a icon

I have watched Lidia for years 🥰

We all dig Lidia around here but let's face it, her mother carries the show! Been looking for her on Create channel. Don't play her enough.

❤ LYDIA ❤

I’m sorry her mother passed away I enjoyed that lady very much she was a funny lady very well groomed

Great content today! Love Lidia and I frequently watch her on PBS.

I had no idea. Wow! Hard work pays off but what you’ve been through to get to this point is incredible. Lots of love and great respect!!

It is very upsetting for me to learn that she had someone in her service for six years without paying you had to take her to court to get compensated for their work.

I'm sad to hear she didn't pay people who should have gotten paid. I don't understand this. I knew her son and Guy Fieri were in trouble once for not paying their workers. I'm shocked about Lidia. I am going to find out the story. Before watching this I loved her because she is downhome mostly. Love her Mom!

Love her ,she is authentic. Can't say the same for Bobby flay

My mom n I would watch her every night.. we really enjoyed watching her...when my mom passed I couldn't watch her show anymore...I miss my mom 😢🙏✝️❤😢🙏✝️

“Transformation” should not be in the name of this vid. “Journey” is more appropriate. Why did she stiff her employees? Anyhow, an amazing woman.

She’s not only a fantastic chef, she seems to be a fantastic person! I love her!

She is an amazing woman . I admire her energy and her strength and her devotion to people and food . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️♥️⭐️⭐️⭐️♥️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I agree with others - she is amazing. I love her and respect her so much.

Lidia for President 2024!

I've loved her shows for years! Watch them whenever I can find them. Her kids always seemed like snobs to me. I've never seen them smile or exude any warmth. So unlike their mother. Her life story is incredible and she is to be applauded for what she's done. I wish for her many more years of doing what she loves.

Love her cheery and gentle personality, I have her cookbooks and would watch her cook anytime.

She makes her cooking look easy and truly it is. She gives me confidence in the kitchen.

Though I never cook, live watching her show especially when her mom is on

I like her, catch her show some Saturdays on PBS.

What an amazing lady! As a refugee myself I appreciate her struggles and how she turned her adversity into such a phenomenal success. God bless her and may she continue to inspire others to work hard and succeed. I miss seeing her Mom on the shows. Loved her.

I absolutely adore Lidia, her sunny personality comes through on the screen and her dishes propel me to cook. She has a very simple approach, she does not preach ... she just shows you the simplicity of fresh ingredients make for some delicious dishes. Blessings to the Great Lidia Bastianish ... may she live a long & healthy life ❤

Amazing! I love Italian food. I used to be a caregiver for an Italian family, and they always made me sit down with the family and Manja, I might not be spelling it right, Lol!

Fabulous chef and lovely lady.

With love for all you do for us

Thank you for sharing this info, I was shocked when you said she did pay people, WOW!!! I am the same age Lidia is, she had to know better, there is no such thing as free labor. I hope she learned from that.

Wow, this is really interesting. Amazing 🤩

Anytime I see Lydia I always get hungry.

A true national treasure and an icon of the PBS universe.

Amazing cook. Wonderful story. Awesome life

It is unfortunate that her employees had to take her to court to get their pay. Deep down that is who she is.

Shes brilliant. And walken never ceases to amaze me.

I still make her Barolo-braised short ribs. A phenomenal recipe!

I love her and her enthusiasm for cooking 🍳

She is chefs kiss!

Hmmm...I just watched her on TV about an hour ago and here she is on You Tube...my phone is listening?

I have been to Becco and the food is delicious. I want to try Felidia's next. I love her show and I am watching this video I am getting hungry.

She is wonderful!

I absolutely love Lidia. I watched her on PBS waaaaay back in the day.

GOOD FOR HER !!! The thing I liked most.... HER UNDERSTANDING THE EVIL OF COMMUNISM !!!!

Just love her and her family!

I like her show. I'm from Italy and another of the stuff she does resonates.

The best cook on television.

I have always loved her. I bought some of her fantastic products when they were available

My husband is Napolitan, when we were dating he took me to Felidia, it was a big disappointment. we did meet her in the old town of Naples where she was taping her program. she was delightful. Thats it.

Before the internet age, I used to watch her show on PBS every weekend and I love her mom ❤

Love Love Love her‼️♥️♥️♥️‼️

Love her shows

Lucky to live near Lidia’s Kansas City!

I was VERY impressed by the sauce and meat plate when I went to Lidia's in Kansas City. I was like OMG! I have NEVER tasted anything at any restaurant in my entire life that tasted like my Nana's sauce! It was excellent!!!! I ordered pasta to go with the excellent sauce! I remember a guy came around and asked how everything was and I asked him if my dead grandmother was working in their kitchen! Because I haven't tasted anything like it since she passed away! 😆❤️I still brag about that place! Food was excellent!

I ate at her Pittsburgh restaurant before she closed it. Was the best dinner I ever had and fantastic service

Pula is a city in Croatia, on the island of Istria. This is not Italy.

Lydia is the best! I love her and her wonderful recipes and restaurants.

I love her!!!!

She had her 2nd restaurant on Horace Harding Expressway in Fresh Meadows Queens. I ate there often. I believe the name was El Secundo.

She looks great

I don't believe she would deliberately withhold wages... we need more details

So many unmentioned people have helped her get to where she is.

Note, Eataly is a chain of Italian markets/restaurants

I enjoy her cooking shows. I married an Italian so I’m interested in learning Italian cooking.

I so much want a time with her to cook and break bread. She is the most favorite chefs of mine. And I would so much love and enjoy the chance to do this. Wow what truly an honor it would be. I feel like she did when she met Julia childs. I would be so greatful she is the queen of Italian cooking. I have made her pasta and cannot recieve enough information about her. Oh it would be such an honor. I pray to do this. It would be such a blessed time. Truly it would.

I am very sorry about you lost your mom! Please tell me if you received my feeling! I love you and your mom and your family 💓

Which brand of olive oil does she use?

Love her. Her style and her belief in the importance of family. Food is still a great tool to bring people together.

What happened to her husband? I like her shows. And her mother is to funny. 😊

I just thought she was another you tuber cook! lol.

Pula were she was born is not in Italy but in Croatia!

Wow, I had no clue about her background! I love her even more now.

IT'S PULA (POOLA) 👎NOT 'POLA' !!1

0:10 TIL Christopher Walken is a pope.

I move watching Lidia

What an interesting life.

Why do some of the restaurant owner not paid workers or cheat their worker out of work pay?

I love watching her shows and her recipes. But why is it, when people reach celebrity status, they become crooks? Lydia, her son, and Mario Battaglia withheld tip money from their wait staff? Really? stealing from their lowest paid employees. Glad they were sued.

So many even chef Ann B head has turned

She must have gotten a good wig, it looks nice…..

Love her

Where was the transition thats turning heads …

There's no doubt she's a great cook, but she also seems to have some skeletons in her closet. There's a rumor in Istria which sounds very much like the truth about Lidia's origin. It very much seems like she wants to appear more of an Italian than her and her family actually are. The truth is that Istrian people are a mix of both Italians and Croats and they kind of consider themselves to be an ethnic group of their own within Croatia. Her maiden (father's) surname was forcefully changed from Croatian Motika to Italian version like it was done to all of Istrian Croats while under Italy's reign. Her mother's name is Italian , but her maiden surname is , again, Croatian. She claims her family were harassed by the communist regime because they were Italian, yet they didn't escape right after the war like other real ethnic Italian folks did, but more than 10 years later. It is suspected that they simply wanted to move to America just like 1000s of Croats went and immigrated due to poverty at the same time. So perhaps they did go to Italy first to be able to move to the US , but half her story sounds like BS. BTW yes, children were baptized in Yugoslavia. Even if it happened that you couldn't do it at a certain town or county due to some over-zealous communist local officials( I won't deny there were people like these), you could easily do it at another town. Even her husband's surname is not Italian. Her selling point is that she is Italian through and through and of course playing a victim is always good marketing. Many people In Istria resent her for this.

Was she able to distance herself from Mario Batali?