"We have never spoken to him since," Lidia Bastianich tells PEOPLE of her relationship with Mario Batali Brian Doben Lidia Bastianich and her son Joe Bastianich had a long history with Mario ...

Bastianich, her mother and her brother eventually fled to Trieste ... “Her producer said, ‘Lidia, you’re pretty good. How about a show of your own?’ And Julia encouraged me.” ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 18 (UPI) --Emmy-winning TV star, restaurateur and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich said the quarter-century she has spent on public television talking about food and showing people ...