Lidia’s Family Table
June 9, 2008 7:35 pm
Christine
book/magazine/dvd reviews, culinaria
This is one of the books that I want to get. The PBS show of the same name is currently airing on CreateTV, and I really want to make a lot of the recipes in it. But they are not all available on Lidia’s website, so I need to buy the book if I want them.
If I buy directly from PBS, it costs the full list of $35.00. But at Buy.com, it’s only $22.63, with free shipping if I order more than $25. I’m sure I can find something else I want from there, I always do. So Buy.com wins.
Anyhoo, if you get CreateTV where you are, check out this show. Lidia is a great cook, a great teacher. The “set” is not a set, it’s her own personal home kitchen. Oh, woudl I kill to have a kitchen like that. And often her family members join her on the show…daughter Tanya, son Joe (who is also a partner with Mario Batali in a restaurant venture), her mother, and various grandkids.
Lidia has had several cooking shows on PBS over the years. She is one of the longest-running cooking show hosts on TV; I think only Mary Ann Esposito has been on longer.
Oh, and I see that Buy.com has her new book, at a greatly discounted price, as well. Gotta add that to my shopping cart. Now I get two great books for not much more than I would have paid elsewhere for one. And I will get my free shipping, too!
Mangia! 
