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Lidia Freedom&Independence
Lidia Freedom&Independence

Freedom & Independence

Jun 28, 2013

Chef Lidia Bastianich travels across the country with celebrity guests to celebrate diversity and explore moving tales of hard-won freedom.

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Joining Lidia her on her journey are actress Anna Deavere Smith, opera singer Renee Fleming, chef Jacques Pepin, singer/songwriter Martha Wainwright and actor/comedian Alec Mapa. Lidia also recounts her own family's powerful story of fleeing life behind the Iron Curtain to come to the USA after World War II.

Watch a preview for Lidia Celebrates America: Freedom & Independence, which premiered June 28, 2013, on PBS.

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"Freedom and independence are tangible concepts to me, and the opportunities we enjoy in a free society resonate deeply, given my firsthand experience living in a place where these things are absent...I am eternally grateful to my adopted homeland of America and feel so fortunate to live in a place where we can enjoy a vibrant, richly diverse, multicultural society--something I want to communicate to viewers with this entire series as things to celebrate and cherish."
~ Lidia Bastianich

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