Legendary Gino's Pastry Shop on Arthur Avenue denied small business loans
In business for 63 years, the shop has suffered financial setbacks and has not qualified for help.
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In business for 63 years, the shop has suffered financial setbacks and has not qualified for help.
Gino’s [Official] For an Italian dish to fly under the radar is rare in a city that has an insatiable appetite for red sauce restaurants, pizza joints, and trattorias of every stripe. That’s the start of the mystique around sanguinaccio, a seasonal dish that can be either “the sexiest sausage in the world” or a chocolate pudding (spoiler: the chocolate pudding is more popular). Its open secret, however, is evident to anyone who knows Italian, or anything Latinate; sangue is the mother tongue for these dishes’ chief ingredient: blood. “Traveling butchers would come,” Lidia Bastia...