Host Lidia Bastianich celebrates important milestones with a diverse group of Americans.

Life's Milestones Lidia Celebrates America

Premiered December 26, 2013
Life's Milestones

Host Lidia Bastianich celebrates important milestones with a diverse group of Americans: a Sweet 16 birthday party for a young French-Cajun woman ready to make her debut as a Nashville country music star; a baptism with a Greek Orthodox family; college graduation seen through the eyes of a Brazilian-American Boston University student; and a Navajo house blessing in Utah.

About the Program

Lidia Celebrates America

Beloved chef and Italian immigrant, Lidia Bastianich, travels from big cities to small towns in America to share the inspiring stories of first, second, and third-generation Americans forging their own way, and shaping the shifting definition of what it means to be an American.

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