You could say that Master Baker Dean Chiotti knows baking. While this is a true statement, it is also a vast understatement. Baking is what his family has done for generations - nine generations to be exact.
"I love it," says 70-year-old Chiotti. "It's what we do," he adds with a shrug of modesty.

Dean's family dates back to 1687 in the Piemonte region of Italy, with Michelangelo Dompe. It is still recorded in the church records that Dompe's weekly tithing was five loaves of bread and one kilo of flour.
To this day, there are still Dompe family members running a successful bakery in Brossassco, a town just on the other side of the hill from where the very first bakery originated.

Read more

Fonte: L'italo-Americano