Chef Lidia Bastianich explores the many cultures that make up the American Melting Pot. Guests include Renee Fleming, Martha Wainwright, Alec Mapa, Jacques Pepin, and Anna Deavere Smith.
A fresh, informative, and entertaining slice of Americana, this is highly recommended."
~ J. Williams-Wood, Video Librarian
Nominated
Best Culinary Series
James Beard
2015
accolades
A Kuwaiti woman becomes an American citizen and registers to vote for the first time in her life. A man purchases a plantation on which his ancestors once were slaves. Jacques Pepin throws his yearly Bastille Day Fete. And Lidia helps prepare a Filipino dinner where Spam, Vienna Sausage, and Banana Ketchup rise to the level of Haute Cuisine
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INDEPENDENCE & FREEDOM
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Lidia brings Anna Deavere Smith and a production team to Galveston, TX to hear the real story behind JUNETEENTH, the annual celebration of the slaves of Texas finally learning of their freedom set forth by Lincoln's Emmancipation Proclamation ... two years after the fact.
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JUNETEENTH w Anna Deavere Smith
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In the stark, stunning 4-Corners region of the American South-west, Lidia attends a Navajo house warming ceremony. The new home is designed and built off-the-grid, with solar panels, water catchment, and found materials by students at the award-winning graduate architectural program, Design/ Build Bluff.
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NAVAJO HOUSE WARMING
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INDEPENDENCE & FREEDOM
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A Kuwaiti woman becomes an American citizen and registers to vote for the first time in her life. A man purchases a plantation on which his ancestors once were slaves. Jacques Pepin throws his yearly Bastille Day Fete. And Lidia helps prepare a Filipino dinner where Spam, Vienna Sausage, and Banana Ketchup rise to the level of Haute Cuisine
JUNETEENTH w Anna Deavere Smith
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Lidia brings Anna Deavere Smith and a production team to Galveston, TX to hear the real story behind JUNETEENTH, the annual celebration of the slaves of Texas finally learning of their freedom set forth by Lincoln's Emmancipation Proclamation ... two years after the fact.
NAVAJO HOUSE WARMING
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In the stark, stunning 4-Corners region of the American South-west, Lidia attends a Navajo house warming ceremony. The new home is designed and built off-the-grid, with solar panels, water catchment, and found materials by students at the award-winning graduate architectural program, Design/ Build Bluff.
