Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen

"Italian-American cuisine has suffered during recent years as Italian regional cooking has proliferated. And you may feel enlightened, as I was, to discover that beyond red sauce and lasagna are dishes like striped bass salad....[Lidia Bastianich] encourages you to reconsider a cuisine that brings to mind cheap restaurants, monstrous portions and unrefined flavors. And to understand that it is like any kind of cooking: in the right hands, it can be superb. She approaches the cuisine with the touch of a fine tailor."Bastianich, Lidia Matticchio is the author of 'Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen', published 2001 under ISBN 9780375411502 and ISBN 037541150X.