My American Dream A Life of Love, Family, and Food by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

From the best-selling cookbook author, beloved and award-winning television personality, and hugely successful restaurateur-a heartwarming, emotional, revelatory memoir told with all her hallmark warmth and gusto.
Lidia's story begins with her upbringing in Pula, a formerly Italian city turned Yugoslavian under Tito's communist regime. She enjoys a childhood surrounded by love and security-despite the family's poverty-learning everything about Italian cooking from her beloved grandmother, Nonna Rosa. When the communist regime begins investigating the family, they flee to Trieste, Italy, where they spend two years in a refugee camp waiting for visas to enter the United States-an experience that will shape Lidia for the rest of her life. At age 12, Lidia starts a new life in New York. She soon begins working in restaurants as a young teenager, the first step toward the creation of her own American dream. And she tells in great, vivid detail the...

https://rapidgator.net/file/1d9722b0e06b5bab7191d71f2fc09000/

http://nitroflare.com/view/13EF9FE75A8064B/