Personal Life
Lidia resides in Queens, New York, with her mother, Erminia Matticchio. Lidia's own kitchen has served as the stage set for all four of her TV series, and the garden that Erminia maintains provides many of the ingredients featured in the shows. Erminia, who answers to "grandma," frequently serves as a sous-chef in various episodes of Lidia's TV series.
Joe Bastianich occasionally appears in Lidia's series to offer wine expertise. He, his wife Deanna, and their three children live in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Tanya Bastianich Manuali, with her husband Corrado Manuali and their two children, lives just a few blocks away from Lidia. Tanya serves as the main on-camera cultural expert for all the segments of Lidia's PBS series that are filmed in Italy.
In an interview by American Public Television, Lidia shared her opinion on how important it is for her to pass family traditions to her family:
| “ | Food for me was a connecting link to my grandmother, to my childhood, to my past. And what I found out is that for everybody, food is a connector to their roots, to their past in different ways. It gives you security; it gives you a profile of who you are, where you come from. | ” |
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