Giusi > wrote:

> I can tell you that Lidia's food comes closer to genuine Italian than almost
> anybody else's. Most TV and news cooks seem to be stuck in a village
> outside Naples or they never left Tuscany outside Siena. They should just
> admit that Italian-American is what they know, love and make.

I have never seen any TV show by lidia, but I have a book of hers (La
Cucina di Lidia) and I have seen recipes from her other books. It
appears that she makes no attempt to appear as any kind of pan-Italian
food expert. Her cooking is very explicitly that of her own region,
Istria and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

Victor