"Chefs Who Care" will feature more than two dozen chefs from New Jersey and New York. Chef Lidia Bastianich, an Emmy Award-winning TV host, cookbook author and restaurateur, is coming to the Shore.

Lidia Matticchio Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public ... It was also in Queens where Lidia and her husband opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, to critical acclaim in 1971.

Her husband, known for working as an executive ... they are true institutions in the world of Daytime television. In addition, Lidia Bastianich’s astounding success combines her love of cooking ...

And when it comes to perfecting the Italian dishes we love, nobody does it better than celebrity chef Lidia Bastianich.

Experience Lidia Bastianich's career as a chef took off when she began cooking her own dishes at Buonavia, the first restaurant she opened with her then-husband Felice in Queens, New York ...