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Author Bastianich, Lidia, author.

Title My American dream : a life of love, family, and food / Lidia Matticchio Bastianich.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
©2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 BASTIANICH    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY BASTIANICH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. BASTIANICH, L.    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B BASTIANICH, LIDIA    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO BASTIANICH    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B BASTIANICH LIDIA B    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B BASTIANICH    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  641.5 BAS    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  B BASTIANICH, LIDIA    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  641.5092 BASTIANICH    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description viii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note "This is a Borzoi book."
Contents Giuliana -- Life in Busoler -- Nonna Rosa -- By the sea -- Safety in the courtyard -- Midnight visitor -- A new chapter begins -- "Apolidi" -- "Profughi" -- Finding my spirituality -- Taking flight -- Hotel Wolcott -- A kitchen with a view -- Bobby socks, saddle shoes, and poodle skirts -- Shoofly pie and succotash -- America the beautiful -- Finding home -- Taking a chance -- Villa Secondo -- Building Felidia -- Grand opening -- Table for two -- Feeding others--feeding me -- Nonna Lidia -- Reflections -- Striking the balance -- Epilogue. Return to Campo San Sabba.
Summary The host of "Lidia's Kitchen" shares a memoir that traces her impoverished but loving upbringing under Tito's communist regime in Yugoslavia, her years as a refugee while trying to enter the United States, and her early start as a restaurant worker.
Subject Bastianich, Lidia.
Bastianich, Lidia. (OCoLC)fst01493265
World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
Cooks -- United States -- Biography.
Cooking, Italian.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) -- Biography.
Television cooking shows.
Restaurateurs -- United States -- Biography.
Cooking, Italian. (OCoLC)fst01753356
Cooks. (OCoLC)fst00878051
Refugees. (OCoLC)fst01092797
Europe -- Istria. (OCoLC)fst01310433
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1939-1945
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781524731618 (hard cover)
1524731617 (hard cover)
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