Chapter 1: A Decision Made Over Garlic Shrimp
How one moment can reverberate through time.
Our story begins in 1986 over plates of garlic shrimp and gin and tonics in Monessen, Pennsylvania. Lucchesi’s restaurant, a one room, hole in the wall haunt with a kitchen so small that the owner/chef is the only one allowed to cook. A white tablecloth Italian that has had the exact same menu for sixty years. A bit of Mon Valley class just across the s…
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