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Lidia Bastianich. A clinic, a market, a kitchen.

Lidia holds a baby in a pink room
Client
Smile Train
Where
Toluca, Mexico
When
2025
Photo and film
Grey Alien Films for Smile Train

Two days around the table.

Chef Lidia Bastianich spent two days with Smile Train in Toluca: at the clinic with patients and their families, then shopping at the market and cooking in a family's kitchen.

We photographed and filmed both days.

The film

Lidia Cooks from the Heart of Mexico · 1:08
02 · Toluca · 2025Lidia in scrubs with a family and their newborn.
03 · Toluca · 2025Lidia in scrubs by the Team Cleft sign.
04 · Toluca · 2025The surgical team by the Team Cleft sign.
05 · Toluca · 2025Lidia cooks with a young woman in her family's home.
06 · Toluca · 2025Everyone in aprons, ready to cook.
07 · Toluca · 2025Lidia with two young women by a stack of tortillas.
08 · Toluca · 2025Lidia hugs a grandmother in her kitchen.