Laura donnelly pastry chef biography

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Lidia Bastianich, James Beard Awarded Chef, Restaurateur, and Author.

and

New Yorker’sAdam Gopnik.

Their conversation will be about  

“The Power of Local: Taste and Terroir”

LIDIA BASTIANICH

Lidia is an Emmy award-winning public television host, a best‐selling cookbook author with a dozen books published to date, a successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business.

Most importantly, Lidia has accomplished all of this by marrying her two passions in life–her family and food–to create multiple culinary endeavors alongside her two children, Joseph and Tanya.

Lidia’s cookbooks, co-authored with her daughter Tanya, include Lidia’s Celebrate Like an Italian, Lidia’s Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine, Lidia’s Commonsense Italian Cooking, Lidia’s Favorite Recipes, Lidia’s Italy in America, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy, and Lidia’s Italy—all companion books to th