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" 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. "

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" Kids today are really so alienated from the source of food. If they are going to nourish themselves properly, if they are going to safeguard this environment we have and the economy that goes with it and world hunger that goes with it, they need to know about food. "

Lidia Bastianich

Today

World

Know

" I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture. "

" If we don't focus on when we eat - like, let's say we watch television or something - you eat much more. If you focus on the food - you smell it, you cook it - you're enjoying it already. "

" 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. "

Lidia Bastianich

People

Great

" My evolution came not as a plan but as opportunities came. People offer them when they see you're doing something well. It's up to you to recognize them, take them, and then dedicate yourself to them. "

" Cooking is about the ingredients and responding, but risotto, specifically, is about the technique. "

" 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. "

" Food is all about the story of a people through the ages. "

" 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. "

" The filming happens in my home, and I cook like I do at home, on my home stove with my house pots and so on. That's who I am. I am very true to my real profile. "

" You should just feel comfortable with food and your own culinary culture, whatever your mother and grandmother know. "

" I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way. "

" 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. "

" I think Chicago's a great city. Like New York, it's full of energy. "

" 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. "

" Physically, women have some challenges in the kitchen, like lifting heavy pots on and off the stove. You learn to adapt; you learn to find a way. But the biggest challenge for women in this industry is how to balance a family with such a demanding career. "

" Food is the common language for all of us. "

Lidia Bastianich

Common

Language

" By cooking with your kids, you can help them understand that food is a powerful tool in connecting human beings. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Italian food really reflects the people. It reflects like a prism that fragments into regions. "

" Cooking is good therapy for me. "

Lidia Bastianich

Cooking

Therapy

" Food feeds our souls. It is the single great unifier across all cultures. The table offers a sanctuary and a place to come together for unity and understanding. "

" 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. "

" I love cooking vegan. Anybody can come in any time to any of our restaurants and get a vegan meal or a gluten-free meal as well. "

" When I say, 'Everybody to the table and eat,' I mean it. That is the glue, the center that holds the family, that gives security. Good food brings everybody to the table. "

" I had my first child at 21, my first restaurant at 24. "

" I was an immigrant. I came here at 12. We were caught behind the Iron Curtain until I was 10. "

" 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. "