BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:554@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20191024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20191024T190000 DTSTAMP:20191024T022118Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/special-presentation-of-big-night-curat ed-by-lidia-bastianich/ SUMMARY:Special Presentation of Big Night curated by Lidia Bastianich DESCRIPTION:Chef Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and businessman Secondo (Stanley Tuc ci) are immigrant brothers from Italy who open their dream restaurant in N ew Jersey. However\, Primo’s authentic food is too unfamiliar for the lo cals’ tastes\, and the restaurant is struggling. When bandleader Louis P rima is scheduled to appear at their restaurant\, the two brothers put all of their efforts into one dinner\, which will ultimately decide the fate of their restaurant.\nUSA\, 1996\, 109 minutes\nDirector Campbell Scott &a mp\; Stanley Tucci\nDistributor Criterion Pictures\n\nIn partnership with: \n\n \n\nLidia Bastianich will be in attendance and will participate in a post-screening Q&\;A with festival host\, Bob Blumer\, followed by a bo ok signing with a selection of books including her latest\, Felidia. Books will be available for purchase on-site.\n\nScreens with Loss of Taste \n \n\nMemory\, passion\, and heartache come together over a glass of wine\, when remembering what is lost.\nItaly\, 2012\, 3 minutes\nDirector Luca Ne stola\n\n\n\nLidia Bastianich \n\n“Everyone knows me as a chef\, TV hos t\, restaurateur\, and author\,” says Lidia Bastianich. “But I am also a refugee who has lived the American dream.” \n\nLidia grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Pola\, a small city on the southern tip of the Istrian Peninsula. While in many ways she enjoyed an idyllic childhood—it was a n old world life\, spent close to the land in her grandmother’s backyard and in vineyards\, orchards\, and courtyards—her family suffered under Yugoslavia’s communist regime\, eventually becoming one of its targets.\ n\n“While life seemed great for me at the time\, what I didn’t know as a child was how communism took away almost everything my family stood for . Communists changed our last name. We couldn’t speak our native Italian language. They took away our religion\; I even had to be baptized in secr et! Communism threatened my dad’s business. So we were forced to flee\, ” Lidia says.\n\nIn 1956\, Lidia and her family escaped across the borde r to Trieste\, Italy\, where they spent two years in the refugee camp of t he Risiera di San Sabba\, grim barracks that used to be a Nazi concentrati on camp. During her time there\, Lidia helped the nuns of the school she a ttended by cooking in the kitchen—her first taste of working in a big co mmercial kitchen. Finally\, in 1958\, sponsored by Catholic Charities\, th e family boarded a plane to New York. \n\nLidia vividly remembers the kin dness they received when arriving in America. “Complete strangers and no nprofit organizations were willing to give us a home\, fill our cupboards with food\, and find my parents a job. There was so much generosity and to this day we have so much gratitude for the people and organizations that helped us when we most needed it.” \n\nIn her new memoir\, My American Dream: A Life of Love\, Family\, and Food\, Lidia takes readers from her l ife under communism\, a dramatic escape across the border and life as a re fugee\, to her journey to America—penniless—and the launch of her food business. She describes the struggle to open her flagship Manhattan resta urant\, Felidia\, and all the accolades that followed\, including the nigh t that Julia Child and James Beard came to dine (which later resulted in t he launch of Lidia’s TV career). The rest\, they say\, is history. \n\n Today\, Lidia is an Emmy Award-winning public television host\, a best-­s elling cookbook author with a dozen books published to date\, a successful restaurateur\, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business . Most importantly\, Lidia has accomplished all of this by marrying her tw o passions in life—her family and food—to create multiple culinary end eavors alongside her two children\, Joseph and Tanya. \n\nLidia’s cookb ooks\, co-authored with her daughter Tanya\, include Lidia’s Celebrate L ike an Italian\, Lidia’s Mastering the Art of Italian Cuisine\, Lidia’ s Commonsense Italian Cooking\, Lidia’s Favorite Recipes\, Lidia’s Ita ly in America\, Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Italy\, and Lidia’s Italy —all companion books to the Emmy winning and four-time nominated televis ion series Lidia’s Kitchen\, Lidia’s Italy in America\, and Lidia’s Italy. Lidia is the owner/co-owner of four acclaimed New York City restaur ants—Felidia\, Becco\, Esca\, and Del Posto—as well as Lidia’s Pitts burgh and Lidia’s Kansas City along with her daughter Tanya. Together wi th Tanya and son-in-law Corrado\, Lidia also has developed a line of artis anal pastas and all-natural sauces\, LIDIA’S\, which are sold at fine fo od stores nationwide.\n\nWith her son Joseph and Italian business magnate Oscar Farinetti\, the team opened Eataly—the largest artisanal Italian f ood and wine marketplace—with current locations in New York City\, Chica go\, Boston\, Los Angeles\, and Sao Paolo\, Brazil. \n\nLidia is a member of Les Dames D’Escoffier and founding member of Women Chefs and Restaur ateurs—two non-profit organizations of women leaders in the food and hos pitality industries. She is also a champion for the United Nations Associa tion of the United States of America’s Adopt-A-Future program\, in suppo rt of refugee education. \n\nAmong the numerous awards and accolades Lidi a has earned are seven James Beard Awards (Outstanding Chef\, Television F ood Show\, Best Chefs in America\, Who’s Who of Food &\; Beverage in America\, Specials 2016\, Special 2017 and 2018)\, and two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Culinary Host (2013 and 2018). \n\nBut perhaps her most trea sured honor was when she was chosen by Pope Benedict (2008) and also Pope Francis (2015) to cook for them during their much-lauded visits to New Yor k City. For Lidia\, food remains a medium—a way of connecting with other s. “In this world today\, more than ever\, sitting together to connect w ith family and friends is so important\,” she adds. “We may have hundr eds of friends on social media\, but our real friends are the ones we shar e meals with. Sharing food is a way to connect and nurture others with som ething you made.” ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://devourfest.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/0 9/Big-Night_resized.jpg LOCATION:Al Whittle Theatre\, 450 Main St\, Wolfville\, NS\, B4P 1E2\, Cana da GEO:45.0915;-64.362765 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=450 Main St\, Wolfville\, N S\, B4P 1E2\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Al Whittle Theatre:geo:45. 0915,-64.362765 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Halifax BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0300 TZNAME:ADT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR