Author: Lidia Bastianich

Quotes

For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.

For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community.

- Lidia Bastianich

When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.

When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table.

- Lidia Bastianich

Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.

Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.

- Lidia Bastianich

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are.

- Lidia Bastianich

Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.

Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.

- Lidia Bastianich

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions.

- Lidia Bastianich

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

The service of food is to nurture, to please, to nourish.

- Lidia Bastianich

It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.

It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that.

- Lidia Bastianich

My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?

My grandmother taught me the seasonality of food. She lived with the rhythms of nature. That's the way we should live. Why do we need raspberries in January flown from Chile?

- Lidia Bastianich

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