Tampa's Alessi Family Marks 100 Years Of Sweet Life
July 17, 2012 | 1 min to read
PA — Phil Alessi Sr. remembers everything. And the memories are as sugar-coated and sweet as his pastries.
When you spend 67 years baking for a city, you accumulate anecdotes like trophies.
Remembering one name begets another.
Saying the name Steinbrenner triggers Schwarzkopf, which leads to Joe Frazier and Sammy Davis Jr.
The Alessi family's story is interwoven with that of Tampa. For 100 years, the family has been baking bread and pastries. Their collection of tiramisu, petit fours and cream puffs now extends across Florida and the United States.
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