Chef Lidia Bastianich has been around the country during the pandemic — and without leaving her home. The 73-year-old chef, restaurateur and Emmy award-winning public television host, like many Americans these days, has been taking a lot of Zoom calls.

"I must say, I depended a lot on my grandchildren," Bastianich tells Fox News of getting acclimated with the new videoconferencing technology, the use of which became widespread amid the pandemic. "Thank God I did, because now I can connect."