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25 Years with Lidia: A Culinary Jubilee
The Teenage Years: Astoria, Queens, NY
When and how did Lidia begin to love cooking? What was it like to be an immigrant in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, NY, in the late 1950’s, and early 1960s? Find out in this clip, as Lidia reminisces with one of her oldest friends about their formative teenage years. And Christopher Walken remembers a young Lidia who, at age 14, began working in his father's bakery?
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Lidia Bastianich celebrates 25 years on television with family and celebrity friends.