{"id":3205,"date":"2014-01-26T18:09:58","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/143.95.94.235\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2014-07-11T17:30:59","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T21:30:59","slug":"talking-cheese-with-lidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturecheesemag.com\/blog\/talking-cheese-with-lidia\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Cheese with Lidia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/culturecheesemag.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/featured-retailer-pic\/lidiabastianich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\"><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been a fan of Lidia Bastianich&#8217;s ever since I first started watching her cook on PBS years ago. When my husband was gifted her <a href=\"http:\/\/shopping.lidiasitaly.com\/lidiasitalyinamerica.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lidia&#8217;s Italy in America&#8221; cookbook<\/a>, my admiration only grew (try the Chicken Scarpariello recipe, and thank me later!). Whether in her cookbooks or on her TV series, Bastianich has always presented Italy and Italian cuisine in a realistic light, and I really appreciate that. Italian fare is more than just pizza, pasta, and gelato (though those ARE important and delicious components); Bastianich knows that and embraces Italy&#8217;s culinary diversity. Needless to say, I was excited to have the chance to interview her for our <a href=\"http:\/\/culturecheesemag.com\/voicings\/fall-2013\/lidia-bastianich\">Autumn 2013 Voicings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I expected, the TV chef was gracious, earnest, and chatty, despite having just finished a long day of recipe testing (&#8220;Only one thing got burned,&#8221; she said with a laugh). We spent a good chunk of time discussing her latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/food\/shows\/lidia-celebrates-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Lidia Celebrates America&#8221; episodes<\/a>, for which Bastianich traveled around the country learning about and participating in cultural celebrations and milestones. I was particularly struck by her description of witnessing a Navajo house blessing in Utah. Since Bastianich herself was an immigrant to America at the age of 12, she said she found the entire experience\u2014which included roasting a lamb for a traditional meal\u2014particularly fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a single mother with three children, and the community built her a new home,&#8221; Bastianich said. &#8220;She was about to move in, but before doing that the [Navajo] always thank the wind and the sun; they have festivities and everybody celebrates together. A medicine man came and blessed the house. For me, it was very moving; the Navajos are real Americans, and this is their tradition. Here I am, an immigrant, kind of exploring, and what I came to explore was not another culture, but a real American culture. I really felt humbled by it.<\/p>\n<p>There was so much more to our conversation than our chat about Bastianich&#8217;s series, and obviously far more material than we were able to fit into the magazine. (Bastianich waxes poetic about her ideal, last cheese-containing meal in Voicings, but she had even more to say on the topic of dairy\u2014this woman loves her some Humboldt Fog!). Here&#8217;s more from our conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How has your perspective as an immigrant affected the way you approach food?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in a very, very simple setting. My grandmother had all the animals: the chickens and the goats. When we came to the U.S., I was young, and at 12 all I wanted to do was explore America and become American. But as I grew older, those memories were beckoning me, were calling me. I was remembering my grandmother and connecting with her through the food. And I think my passion for food is precisely that, because food for me is and was memories. When I had my children, I wanted them to know who they were and what a Sunday meal would be: You know, we had to have our pasta; Easter, we need to have our bread with the egg in it, and so on. I still do those traditions with my grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did it mean to you to have your children follow you into the culinary world?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was kind of unexpected. Well, it also was expected. We raised them in the industry. Joe was 4 when I opened my restaurant [Felidia]. I was just about to have Tanya. The business was growing, I was growing, everything was growing. After Tanya was born, I had to work; that\u2019s what I did. My mother would help me. We would have a lot of our meals at the restaurant as a family and then Grandma would take [the children] home and my husband and I would continue working. So as the children grew and became teenagers, they got involved. They helped bus tables and so on. A restaurant is sort of &#8230; it pulls you in; it\u2019s an energy; you\u2019re with people, it\u2019s jovial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk cheese. What cheeses do you love and why? And what do you seek out when you travel? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In California, [Cypress Grove Chevre&#8217;s] Humboldt Fog, a goat cheese with a streak of ash. I love it.<\/p>\n<p>I love a great cheddar. A great cheddar in cooking is delightful; it\u2019s wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>If I go to Italy, I love my Grana Padano, which is granular, cow&#8217;s milk cheese. And then I love my gorgonzola, my soft blue cheese. Then, of course, there&#8217;s the fresh pulled cheeses, the burrata in Puglia, [Italy]. If I want a burrata, I go to Puglia or to the south of Rome, where they have the buffalo&#8217;s milk cheeses. I went to visit the buffaloes, and they\u2019re the most wonderful animals, and, of course, they make delicious milk and cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of Lidia Bastianich&#8217;s ever since I first started watching her cook on PBS years ago. When my husband was gifted her &#8220;Lidia&#8217;s Italy in America&#8221; cookbook, my admiration only grew (try the Chicken Scarpariello recipe, and thank me later!). 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