by Maureen Fitzgerald

Lidia Bastianich strides into my kitchen, ties on a bright-red apron with her name in big letters across the top, and quickly takes command. "I can always find my way around a kitchen," she says after washing up and settling in at the little prep counter.

"So," she says, placing her hands on her hips, "you want to start with the risotto?" Lidia came to cook in my humble kitchen the other day as part of the tour for her latest cookbook, Lidia's Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine (Knopf, 2015).

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