My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food (Lidia Matticchio Bastianich) *Signed* Friuli showing you how to make

showing you how to make delicious meals from popular vegetables

reclaiming food from its commodity status in the global context of financial turmoil

and others

and appetites

My American Dream: A Life of Love, Family, and Food (Lidia Matticchio Bastianich) *Signed* Friuli showing you how to makeSigned with a specially mounted bookplate inside! For decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. Now, in My American Dream, she tells her own story for the very first time. Born in Pula, on the Istrian peninsula, Lidia grew up surrounded by love and security, learning the art of Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother. But when Istria was annexed by a communist