Julia Child’s Favorite Mushroom Risotto | Cooking with Lidia Bastianich

Recipe and tips: https://to.pbs.org/3MsLtvr | #LidiaPBS Welcome to Lidia’s kitchen! Lidia shows us how to make Mushroom Risotto, one that she makes often at home. She reminisces as she cooks, and tells the story of opening her first restaurant, Felidia, as young woman. Hear what happened when Julia Child and James Beard came in to the restaurant asking specifically for the Risotto. Lidia Celebrates America: Flavors That Define Us, an all-new hour-long documentary special featuring chef Lidia Bastianich, will premiere May 31 at 9/8c right here on the PBS Food YouTube channel. Lidia will join in the live chat to reply to Q’s and comments from viewers like you! Subscribe to the PBS Food channel for more clips:    / pbsfood   Programs like “Lidia Celebrates America” are made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station: https://www.pbs.org/donate Enjoy full episodes of your favorite PBS shows anytime, anywhere with the free PBS Video App: https://to.pbs.org/2QbtzhR #LidiaBastianich #Risotto #MushroomRisotto #RisottoRecipe Host Lidia Bastianich Executive Producers Lidia Bastianich & Laurie Donnelly For Five O’Clock Films Series Producer Callie Wiser Producers Erika Heymann Kendra Gahagan Editor Mark Dugas 1st DP Josh Kun 2nd DP Yasmeen Jawhar Grip Alex Seel Assistant Editor Peter Norton Supervising Culinary Producer Amy Stevenson Culinary Assistant Jenny Acosta Hair and Make-up Lisa Makowski Studio MCM Stages Music APM For GBH Post production The Outpost, Dave Bigelow, Beth Godlin Lillis GBH Digital Tory Starr, Anna Fort, Zack Waldman GBH Legal Jay Fialkov, Raven Smith GBH Lifestyles Emily Stevens, Jonathan Trimby For Tavola Productions Supervising Producer Tanya Bastianich Manuali For PBS Executives in Charge Adam Dylewski, Maribel Lopez This digital series is produced for PBS by GBH, Five O’Clock Films, & Tavola Productions which are solely responsible for its content. © 2023 WGBH Educational Foundation and Tavola Productions. All rights reserved.