Auction Ends: Sep 5, 2015 11:00 PM PDT

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Petaluma Pie Company

Item Number: 268

Estimated Value: 25 USD
Sold: 30 USD to kato712

Number of Bids: 5 - Bid History

Item Description

$25 gift certificate.

The bakery opened in December 2010 and is owned and operated by Petaluma couple and pie enthusiasts, Angelo Sacerdote and Lina Hoshino.

Born and raised in New York City Angelo loved food as a child and taught himself how to cook by watching Julia Child and other cooking shows. He got an early start on the local food movement by growing tomatoes and basil in the window flower box on a 6th floor New York city apartment in the 1980’s. Angelo used to think, “Wouldn’t it be great to have a restaurant where everything is a pie?” This pie shop was the answer to that age old question.

Lina, Angelo’s partner in life, grew up in a family that moved between Tokyo, Paris, Hawaii, California and New Jersey. Her family also owned and operated one of the few Japanese restaurants in New Jersey in the 1980s, where Lina, as a teenager, got first hand experience working in the restaurant business. “I watched my mother work many hours to make her restaurant a success. When we decided to open the pie shop, I knew it wasn’t going to be a cake walk, but it has been worth the effort” She said. Lina thinks pie has the potential to embrace and celebrate diverse culinary traditions from around the world. Globally inspired pie: How American is that?