When Bronxville native, restaurant owner, and—as of November—published author Olimpia Zuccarelli reflects over her three decades in the restaurant business, her mind instinctively drifts to her mother. “[She] taught me everything I know, and is my reason for writing this book,” reads the first sentence of A...
OLIMPIA ZUCCARELLI APPEARING AT WILLIAMS-SONOMA...
Olimpia Zuccarelli grew up in the restaurant business, literally. Her parents Frances and Ralph Zuccarelli opened Zuccarelli’s Italian Kitchen 32 years ago with old family recipes brought with them when they emigrated from Italy. To this day that tradition is kept alive in the kitchen....
How many restaurateurs can seriously claim that they have been working in their business since they were nine years old? Not many. But when you’re the third generation of an Italian eatery family, you enter the business early. For Olimpia Zuccarelli, as with her parents...
