When Corrado Palmieri was growing up in the "heel of the boot," as he says, he was often elbow-deep in flour as he helped his grandmother bake pastries specific to Southern Italy and his home province of Lecce.

Decades later, after years of business school and working in investment banking, he opened his own Italian coffee shop and bakery — not in his home town or even in Milan, the business capital where he had worked, but in Dallas.

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