Olivia Bastianich is the latest of a line of accomplished chefs that hail from one of America’s most famous food dynasties. Olivia Bastianich has been exposed to the basics of food and wine affluence in her family. She is the daughter to Joe Bastianich, a reputed restaurateur and a judge on the MasterChef and Deanna Bastianich her mother.
Early Life
Olivia Bastianich was born in a family that not only lived to eat but indeed ate to live. Lacking a formal culinary education and from a food-focused television series, Donna had her first taste of the exciting restaurant business growing up in New York witnessing her father’s business adventures.
The noisy restaurant life and the family-centered moments where people cook recipes inherited from their forefathers. Growing up, Olivia got a first-hand experience of how glamorous and at the same time how rally hard the business of running a restaurant could be.
She worked in her family’s restaurants with seeing how this industry works with her own eyes, attending to the details of service with passion and understanding how much hard work is put into delivering the best in the gastronomy business.
It was also beneficial for her to gain early exposure to the working of restaurants and especially their business side of the trade and hoteling industry accompanied the necessary technicalities with an understanding of good food and services.
Her academic preparation was therefore a mix between formal education and on job training through the family business. Living in a family where family debates included business issues Olivia was introduced to the world of business and everyone’s need to work hard no matter the job chosen.
Career
Like any true entrepreneur Olivia was raised with a strong work ethic and determined to establish herself independently she embarked on her professional journey based on both – her family’s legacy and her own vision.
Despite being introduced into the food and hospitality business through her family, she seems to have a broad sense of engagements of variety of aspects of business and artistic inclinations. Having received the importance of education and clearly realizing the need for practical experience.
Parents: Joe Bastianich & Deanna Bastianich
It is important to know that at least Olivia Bastianich has rather exotic parents – Joe and Deanna Bastianich, who influenced her perspective significantly. Joe Bastianich is her father – he has an empire in the food and wine industry with his mother Lidia Bastianich and former partner Mario Batali.
Having been a successful restaurateur, winery owner and TV-show host, Joe has introduced a broad audience of Americans to Italian food and wine. He has become very famous as a judge on MasterChef and MasterChef Italia which are cookery reality shows.
Olivia has also been fortunate in having her mother, Deanna Bastianich, to help mother her despite the fact that the name Bastianich is quite famous. She has had a role of ensuring that she maintains order at home in as much as the family’s public life consumes a lot of their time.