Lidia Bastianich, the much beloved James Beard and Emmy award-winning chef, is celebrating twenty-five years on public television. With one of the longest running cooking shows on PBS, Lidia is also a lifetime restaurateur and a bestselling cookbook author who has a compelling backstory as an immigrant, personifying what it means to be living the “American Dream.”In honor of her 25th anniversary, 25 YEARS WITH LIDIA: A Culinary Jubilee is a prime time PBS documentary special that…

Lidia Bastianich, the much beloved James Beard and Emmy award-winning chef, is celebrating twenty-five years on public television. With one of the longest running cooking shows on PBS, Lidia is also a lifetime restaurateur and a bestselling cookbook author who has a compelling backstory as an immigrant, personifying what it means to be living the “American Dream.”

In honor of her 25th anniversary, 25 YEARS WITH LIDIA: A Culinary Jubilee is a prime time PBS documentary special that will– with the help of family and some celebrity friends – roll back the years and take a very intimate look at the trajectory of Lidia’s life both on and off the screen.