This Father’s Day we remember the pizza makers we lost over the past year. Francesco Giordano was born in Sicily in 1952. He immigrated to America in 1963, when he was just 11 years old. His first pizzeria job was in Ridgewood, right next to Bushwick, Brooklyn. At that time, the pizzeria was called Valentino’s …
The story is ubiquitous. Queen Margherita of Savoy, royal consort to King Umberto I, was visiting the palace at Capodimonte in Naples. Having grown tired of the French cuisine enjoyed by European royalty, she decided she’d like to taste to food of the common people: pizza. Her staff summoned a famous pizza maker named Rafaele …
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