American chef, author, and restaurateur, Lidia Bastianich has an estimated net worth of $3.75 million. She came to the United States from Istria when she was 12 years old with her parents and her brother Franco. Lidia is now the co-owner, with her son Joseph, of Felidia and Becco restaurants in New York and Lidia's in Kansas City and Pittsburgh. She is also the star of Lidia's Italian American Kitchen and Lidia's Italian Table, shown nationwide on Public Television and in Australia, Canada and Japan. Born Lidia Matticchio Bastianich on February 21, 1947, in the town of Pola, Istria, then newly ceded to Yugoslavia, now part of Croatia.