HOLIDAY TABLES & TRADITIONS</br><h2>A Passover Seder</h2>
Nov 15, 2011
Premiered December, 2011, on PBS.
An Italian Christmas Eve. A Mexican-American Christmas Day. A Chinese New Year. A Passover Seder. Four holidays, four very different tables and traditions. Join celebrity chef and culinary author Lidia Bastianich as she travels across America in a celebration of culture through food, in Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday Tables and Traditions.
Lidia returns to New York City to celebrate a Passover Seder with food author Ruth Reichl and the fourth-generation owners of the specialty food shop Russ & Daughters. On the menu: smoked salmon, charoset, chicken soup with matzo balls, and, of course, beef brisket and horseradish. Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and a longtime Russ & Daughters customer, joins Lidia in the kitchen. "As you know, my mother was the world's worst cook," says Reichl. "So this is maybe the only recipe of hers that I would ever dare to share. She loved showing up at Seder with her brisket and everyone would gasp and say I've never seen anything like that before!"
Four Holiday Adventures
An Italian Christmas Eve
Follow Lidia to learn how the Italian-American community celebrates Christmas in the program. 
A Chinese New Year
Follow Lidia to learn how the Chinese-American community celebrates the Chinese New Year. 
A Mexican-American Christmas Day
Follow Lidia to learn how the Mexican-American community celebrates Christmas. 
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Four holidays, four very different tables and traditions.
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