What happened when Julia Child visited Lidia’s first restaurant and ordered the risotto?

Julia Child’s Favorite Mushroom Risotto Lidia Celebrates America

Premiered May 21, 2023
Julia Child’s Favorite Mushroom Risotto

Welcome to Lidia’s kitchen! Lidia shows us how to make Mushroom Risotto, one that she makes often at home. She reminisces as she cooks, and tells the story of opening her first restaurant, Felidia, as young woman. Hear what happened when Julia Child and James Beard came in to the restaurant asking specifically for the Risotto.

About the Program

Lidia Celebrates America

Beloved chef and Italian immigrant, Lidia Bastianich, travels from big cities to small towns in America to share the inspiring stories of first, second, and third-generation Americans forging their own way, and shaping the shifting definition of what it means to be an American.

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