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        Lidia Celebrates America
            Lidia's Risotto
In rural Pennsylvania, Lidia hosts a celebratory meal for the family and friends she connected with on her journey through America's heartland. Here she makes an Italian Risotto for her guests. A Heartland Holiday Feast is Lidia Bastianich's latest special, in which she travels cross-country meeting Americans with diverse heritages and culinary traditions.
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            Lidia Bastianich meets changemakers intent on re-shaping the future of food in America.
        
        
     
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Today Lidia is making Mussels Triestina, a simple ten-minute dish.
        
        
     
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            What happened when Julia Child visited Lidia’s first restaurant and ordered the risotto?
        
        
     
    
                        
  
  
    
      
    
  
  
    
      
        
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            Lidia has her friend Jacques Pépin in the kitchen and they’re cooking eggs!
        
        
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    