Restaurateur. He is attributed to bringing pizza to California and all of the West Coast. He opened at 1042 Kearney Street, San Francisco in 1935 after he had operated Dante's, a popular New York restaurant for 10 years, and prior to this he learned his culinary art in Italy where he ran a sidewalk cafe in cliffside Sorrento on the Piazza Tasso. His Italian food and restaurant was a favorite spot for visiting opera stars and other singers and radio personalities who loved his gnocchi and pizza, cold zucchini salad, marinated oysters and a particular red wine. A month before his death, he was visiting his native Italy, he fell ill and returned home. And just prior to this he was throwing pizza dough in the air in preparation for them going into their wood fed brick ovens, a relatively new innovation on the West Coast. His wife, Concetta was once sought out by the great and near-great as a prima ballerina.
Father: Francesco
Mother: Maria Scognamillo
Newspaper notices and funeral arrangement records use Edwardo.
Father: Francesco
Mother: Maria Scognamillo
Newspaper notices and funeral arrangement records use Edwardo.
Restaurateur. He is attributed to bringing pizza to California and all of the West Coast. He opened at 1042 Kearney Street, San Francisco in 1935 after he had operated Dante's, a popular New York restaurant for 10 years, and prior to this he learned his culinary art in Italy where he ran a sidewalk cafe in cliffside Sorrento on the Piazza Tasso. His Italian food and restaurant was a favorite spot for visiting opera stars and other singers and radio personalities who loved his gnocchi and pizza, cold zucchini salad, marinated oysters and a particular red wine. A month before his death, he was visiting his native Italy, he fell ill and returned home. And just prior to this he was throwing pizza dough in the air in preparation for them going into their wood fed brick ovens, a relatively new innovation on the West Coast. His wife, Concetta was once sought out by the great and near-great as a prima ballerina.
Father: Francesco
Mother: Maria Scognamillo
Newspaper notices and funeral arrangement records use Edwardo.
Father: Francesco
Mother: Maria Scognamillo
Newspaper notices and funeral arrangement records use Edwardo.
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