Presents enduringly popular Italian-American cuisine, cultivated from Lidia Bastianich's repertoire of recipes. Cooking is at the heart of the Italian-American experience, and the series presents traditional dishes with origins in authentic regional fare that, throughout the years, were adapted to the modern American palate and pantry. Reminiscent of the early days in her first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens, NY, Lidia fuses recipes from both past and present into creative Mediterranean dishes-and makes them uniquely her own.