Star Kitchen: Lidia Bastianich

To her fans, Lidia Bastianich's kitchen is almost as famous as she is. The 13-year PBS cooking show veteran films her current show, Lidia's Italy, from the kitchen of her Long Island home. Three years ago, Lidia bought this New York City apartment as her urban retreat, embarking on what she calls a labor of love: designing every detail herself, like positioning each brown penny-size tile on the kitchen floor.

Lidia likes having one sink for cleaning vegetables and another for washing dishes, so she installed two sinks, even though they eat up precious space in her New York City kitchen.

Ever since she was a girl, Lidia has put edible decorations on her Christmas tree. She uses ribbon to hang tangerines, dried figs, cookies and candies.

Lidia loves all things olive: oil, trees, wood, even the color. She keeps some olive-wood utensils and a tile with an olive tree on it to remind her of her grandparents' olive orchard.