The Bastianich family is well-known in the restaurant world. Matriarch Lidia Bastianich has six restaurants, is a best-selling cookbook author and an Emmy award-winning television host.

In Restaurant Man, Bastianich details how much of a team he and Batali are, calling them “tag-team champs” and a “pure partnership” at Babbo.

Bastianich also discussed the lawsuit that got him and partner Mario Batali noticed in an undesirable way. In March, the duo settled a class-action lawsuit by restaurant workers – including more ...

The restaurants, most of them operating under longtime Batali & Bastianich chefs and managers, ran smoothly enough, except for some lawsuits over wages, tips and sexual harassment (not by Mr. Batali).

Joe Bastianich tells it like it is. So it should come as no surprise that his new book “Restaurant Man” is a brutally honest account of his rise from a self-proclaimed Queens “punk” to a ...

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Bastianich opened her first big restaurant, the now-closed Felidia, with her then husband, Felice, in 1981. It’s there that she was discovered by Julia Child, who liked her risotto and ...

Joseph Bastianich isn’t content being a mere Restaurant Man, as he’d have it. Or even a haute grocer. “Hopefully, we’re going to change the way people consume,” he said, sitting at a ...

Bastianich's recipes also happen to often be quite budget-friendly.Many Italian and Italian-American foods actually automatically fall into that genre, if you will. "Cucina povera" , which ...

For Lidia Bastianich, taking care of people is second nature. While on set of her PEOPLE photo shoot (on newsstands Friday), a sanitation truck passes by the chef’s sprawling home in Queens, and ...

Top tips you need to cook like Lidia Bastianich "Get in the kitchen with confidence -- think, 'Lidia is on my shoulder' -- I'm there with you, just get in the kitchen and start cooking," she said.