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" I just love engaging a live audience - I love that. "
Lidia Bastianich
Love
Audience
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" I see how people connect with me on different level through my show, how they want to transport what I cook into their home kitchens for their own families. It's my responsibility to always make sure that is quality. "
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" For me, it's the ultimate to be able to nurture and nourish someone. They trust you. It's a basic form of intimacy in a community. "
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" When you are the host, you have to take the party into your hands like a conductor. "
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" I love that I've become a mentor, almost like a mother, to all the people out there that love Italian, that love cooking. I seem to make them comfortable. "
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" Cooking is good therapy for me. "
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Me
Therapy
" Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in. "
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" Make your refrigerator or freezer like a treasure chest. "
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" Eating is something we all have to do. When we sit down at the table, we nurture ourselves, and hence, all our resistance goes away. We are open to receiving good and taking it in with gusto and pleasure. "
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Pleasure
Good
Eating
" Everybody can cook. You don't have to do anything fancy. You can do a nice antipasto spread with sardines, anchovies, some meats, marinated vegetables, fruits, cheese, nuts, and crackers. "
Lidia Bastianich
Nice
Vegetables
You
" Simplicity in preparation is the Italian way. Make easy dishes, and then you can elaborate the final preparation by decorating with vegetables or herbs or adding a dash of olive oil. "
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Preparation
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" Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. "
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Focus
Any
Great
" Chemistry was my college interest. Cooking is about chemistry. "
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Chemistry
College
Interest
" I am blessed that the food business is good for me. Good to me. "
Lidia Bastianich
Business
Blessed
Me
" I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books sell, it's this trust. "
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Think
Important
Growth
" I love making apple strudel. "
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Love
Apple
I Love
" I started in the restaurant industry when I was 22, so I've had quite a long tenure, if you will. "
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You
Long
Restaurant
" If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection. "
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Me
Communication
Food
" It's important to let children fly on their own. I understood that they needed to create their own life and not be my shadow. Let them make their own decisions, and support them along the way. "
Lidia Bastianich
Fly
Life
Shadow
" We had our wheat. We made our own olive oil. We made our wine. We had chickens, ducks; we had sheep, cows, milk. So I was raised in a very simple situation but understanding really food from the ground... the essence of food and the flavors. And those memories I took with me, and I think that they lingered on. "
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Me
Memories
Simple
" When you sit down to eat at a table, you are ready to take in nourishment - we all need to eat to live. Even in primal tribes, people ate together. It's the opening for friendship. "
Lidia Bastianich
People
You
Together
" I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food. "
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Simple
Straightforward
Food
" Don't accept what a grocery store has for you. Tell the store to get you want you want. If you want honey from a local farmer, organic honey, you tell them. We are in control. It's up to us as the consumer to get what we want. "
Lidia Bastianich
Farmer
Accept
Control
" I think people make it too systematic in a way, like it's a chemistry formula. Food is not like that; food is very forgiving. Connecting and making do with a lot of the food elements can be fun and exciting. "
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Chemistry
Fun
People
" Nature recharges me. "
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Nature
Me
" Choose recipes like a base recipe; make a big pot of soup and freeze it. From then on, you can take it in any direction. Another day put rice in it, or then put corn or sausages. From there, it's endless. "
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Day
Soup
You
" There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy. "
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Me
Great
" Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. "
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" The food of a country is my story. It is a small story, but people relate so much to it. I want to share that, but also the idea of bringing people and family together. "
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Small
Family
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" What I do is my life, but it's not like I spend 18 hours a day, seven days a week in the restaurants. "
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My Life
Days
Day
" I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way. "
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Way
You
Perfect