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" I think a ricotta cheesecake is very easy to make. "
Lidia Bastianich
Easy
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" I found great rewards in cooking a dish and feeding it to someone. It was a means of communicating. I was giving part of my talent or my gift and sharing it with somebody, making somebody happy. And it gave a lot back to me, and I wanted to do more and more. "
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" I cooked for the two Popes that were here. Pope Francis I cooked for and Pope Benedict before him. Pope Benedict is German. And I did a little research - his mother was a chef. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. "
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" I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma. "
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" I think traditions change and modify with each generation. With new members joining the family, their customs and traditions have to be respected and combined with the exiting traditions. And the children that follow are part of that new evolving tradition and, as they grow, will have input that will, in turn, continue to evolve that tradition. "
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" When I first came here, Italian food wasn't anything I recognized. I didn't know what Italian American food was; we never ate it at home. It was the food of immigrants who came here and made use of the ingredients they had. "
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" I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food. "
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" Food is kind of my entry card into everything. Food kind of opens the doors... because food is peace. It's good; it's positive. "
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" I am a transporter of the Italian culture - culinary culture, family culture - because I love it, I thrive in it, and I think it's the right way. "
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" I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture. "
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" 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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" In 1981, we opened Felidia, and the newspapers, the city papers, the big timers came, and I got invited on the 'Today Show' and so on. A lot of food luminaries would come to Felidia - Julia Child, James Beard, they all came. "
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" As a chef, I feel that it is my duty to make the most of what the earth gives us. "
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" Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us. "
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" I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy. "
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" It's in the nature of Italians to live life with a positive tone and to celebrate the invitations that come along in life. Italian food is so conducive to all of that. "
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" If you're like me, food is a medium for communication. It's an expression of love and affection. "
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" Why do you think millennials are so into food? It's the way they relate to each other. "
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" Holidays - any holiday - are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together. "
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" When I started as a young chef, I was Italian, and I was a woman, and everyone else in New York was French and a man. "
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" 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. "
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" What I continuously remember is when I was a child in the courtyard with my grandmother and we milked the goat and we made the ricotta. The still-warm ricotta from our goat, on top of a piece of bread, and we used to sprinkle just a little bit of honey or sugar on it. That flavor, that stays in my memory. "
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" A box of spaghetti can take seven minutes to cook, and you can make a sauce at that time with perhaps garlic, olive oil, and zucchini. Then you've got yourself a complete meal. The whole thing shouldn't take more than half an hour. "
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" There is a history to Italian food that goes back thousands of years, and there's a basic value of respecting food. America is young and doesn't have that. "
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" Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are. "
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" Food is all about the story of a people through the ages. "
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" 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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