




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.


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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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
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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
LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA



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.
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.
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LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA


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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.
LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA



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.
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.
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LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA


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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.
LIDIA CELEBRATES AMERICA




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.


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
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.
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.







