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Lidia Matticchio Bastianich (; born February 21, 1947) is an Italian born American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to public television cooking shows since 1998. In 2014, she launched her fifth television series, ''Lidia's Kitchen''. She owns several Italian restaurants in the U.S. in partnership with her daughter Tanya Bastianich Manuali and her son, Joe Bastianich, including Felidia (founded with her ex-husband, Felice), Del Posto, Esca, and Becco in Manhattan; Lidia's Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Lidia's Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. ==Early life== Lidia Matticchio Bastianich was born on February 21, 1947, in Pola, formerly Italian (now a city in Croatia), but made a part of Yugoslavia after September 15, 1947, according to the Paris Peace Treaties. Living nine years under Marshal Tito's Communist regime in Yugoslavia, during which time her name was changed from Matticchio to Motika by the Yugoslav authorities,〔Victor William Geraci, Elizabeth S. Demers, ''Icons of American Cooking'', 3 ()〕 her father, Vittorio, in 1956 sent his wife and their two children to visit relatives in Trieste, Italy, while he remained in Istria to comply with the government's mandate that one member of a family remain in Yugoslavia to ensure that the rest would return.〔“(Author Interview )”, ''Lidia’s Italy''. Random House, Inc., online catalogue. (Retrieved July 31, 2009)〕 Hours later, Vittorio himself left Yugoslavia under cover of darkness and crossed the border into Italy.〔 Their departure was part of the larger Istrian exodus. The Matticchio family reunited in Trieste, Italy,〔''(Lidia Bastianich to Receive Bpeace Economic Impact Award )''. Press Release. Business Council for Peace, April 29, 2008. ''(Retrieved August 1, 2009.)''〕 joining other families who had claimed political asylum from Communist Yugoslavia starting in 1947, many of whom remained in refugee camps throughout Italy for years. For the Matticchio family, the Risiera di San Sabba camp was one that had been an abandoned rice factory in Trieste that had been converted to a Nazi concentration camp during World War II and partially destroyed towards the end of the war, the Risiera di San Sabba. According to Bastianich in a Public Television documentary, although a wealthy Triestine family hired her mother as a cook–housekeeper and her father as a limousine driver, they remained residents of the refugee camp. Two years later, their displaced persons application was granted to emigrate to the U.S.〔 In 1958, the Matticchio family reached New York City.〔〔Fernandez, Tommy. ("Most Powerful Women in New York 2007" ). ''Crain's New York Business''. Retrieved September 1, 2013.〕 The 12-year-old Bastianich and her family moved to North Bergen, New Jersey, and later Queens, New York.〔Hyman, Vicki (November 1, 2011). ("'Lidia's Italy in America': Now that's Italian-American!" ). NJ.com.〕 Bastianich gives credit for the family's new roots in America to their sponsor, Catholic Relief Services:〔〔〔 Bastianich started working part-time when she was 14 (the legal age for a work permit), during which time she briefly worked at the Astoria bakery owned by Christopher Walken's father. After graduating from high school, she began to work full-time at a pizzeria on the upper west side of Manhattan.〔() 〕 At her sweet sixteen birthday party, she was introduced to her future husband, Felice "Felix" Bastianich (born Bastianić), a fellow Croatian immigrant and restaurant worker from Labin (Albona), Istria. The couple married in 1966 and gave birth to their son, Joseph, in 1968. Their second child, Tanya, was born in 1972. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lidia Bastianich」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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