Renowned Chef Lidia Bastianich invites six celebrity guests of different ethnic backgrounds to her holiday table: Christopher Walken, award winning actor and childhood friend; Rita Moreno, award winning actress; Ann Curry, television journalist; model and television host Padma Lakshmi; celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson; and Carlo Ponti, Jr., conductor. Home for the Holidays begins in the kitchen and ends at the dinner table in Lidia's home in Queens, New York. Lidia shares her own culinary customs with the diverse and varied special dishes of her invited celebrity dinner companions.