Dominic’s Obsession

From my early children, when I could barely reach the stove, I was obsessed and curious about the appetizing aromas that wafted from the pots and pans. I couldn’t wait for dinner, because I knew I was in for a treat.

In later years, I happily lingered in the kitchens of my parents’ restaurants hoping to learn my mother’s secrets for creating the food everyone raved about.

My parents were born and raised in Italy. My father was captured by the Americans in WWII and sent to Indiana as a prisoner. After Mussolini was killed, he had a choice to go back home or finish his term as U.S. soldier. He chose to finish his term and he was stationed at Fort Knox. After the war, he went back to Italy, got married and my oldest brothers were born in Italy. Afterwards, my family returned to Northern Kentucky and settled where I was born.

Growing up, my parents owned and operated restaurants. I was always around food and in the restaurant industry. My mother taught me how to cook. By the time I was 9 years old, I was able to cook the recipes she was able to cook. I started out making meatballs and soon after learned how to make the sauces and pasta.

The most important secret, my mother insisted, was not an ingredient, but the feelings in the heart and the sincere desire to make people happy. With this in mind, I have always striven to create the dishes from my family’s heritage with the highest quality ingredients so that they will truly satisfy the people I feed. Throughout the years, I formulated my goal – to teach the public how to create the dishes of my heritage so that they can eat healthy and enjoy them with their family and friends.

Today, I am proudly carrying on my family tradition. My promise to my customers is to give them the food they dream about. My promise to my family and myself is to work hard and tenaciously and finally, my promise to my mother is that I will always put my heart into my business and cook with the goal of making people satisfied and happy!

After all – “What’s life without food?”

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