![]() Valastro is in the midst of a major expansion, outfitting a factory in Jersey City so he can move the baking out of this building to make room for more customers he can also increase his volume and sell his products nationally. ![]() An exacting bakery boss who is also a star who is also an entrepreneurial businessman is a dangerous person to disappoint. But in person, he is deliberate and systematic, thinking three steps ahead if his eyebrow even lifts, there are plenty of staff members available to interpret his needs. His television persona is all hugs and cupcakes, punctuated by strategically placed fits of temper. Valastro is alternately low-key and laser-focused. It is available there for just three weeks, from March 30 through Easter (April 24 this year).įirst, we sat in his office, drinking coffee. It is a deep-dish cousin to quiche, packed with deli meats and cheeses, and it is the only savory item the bakery makes. I had come to Carlo’s so he could show me how to make pizza rustica, a traditional Italian-American dish for Easter, or as his family calls it, cold-cut pie. “It’s a show about family how could I not have included it?” Mr. Actual footage of Carlo Salvatore’s birth was included in a new episode, along with tears, congratulations, back slapping and 3-year-old Marco trilling, “Is it out?” This, as he says at the top of each show, consists of “mia famiglia.” Think the Loud family, only louder: His four older sisters, who run the bakery counter when they’re not screaming at him or at one another (two of their husbands are among the bakers) his mother, who likes to scold her 34-year-old son for his penchant for practical jokes (“You may be the cake boss, but I’m the real boss!”) his three adorable children under the age of 7 and his remarkably good-natured wife, Lisa, who gave birth to their fourth child on Valentine’s Day. Valastro, a show biz natural with a personality that’s winning without being cloying (at least most of the time), the consistent draw is his crew. He constructed a confectionary Sesame Street for the show's 40th anniversary, with all the characters sculptured out of modeling chocolate, and reproduced the Leaning Tower of Pisa as a 4 ½-foot-tall wedding cake.Īlong with Mr. Valastro, a preternaturally talented baker, as he decorates 50 wedding cakes in a week (black stencils on white fondant, try that at home) or takes on challenges like replicating the Tuscan villa where Rachael Ray spent her honeymoon - in cake. “Cake Boss,” which debuted in 2009 (it is now seen in 160 countries), is a reality show that follows most days in the life of Mr. “Look! It’s Buddy! Oh my God!” Cameras flashed, people applauded. ![]() On a recent Monday morning, brown-eyed Buddy Valastro, the owner of Carlo’s Bakery and the star of TLC’s “Cake Boss,” “Kitchen Boss” and “Cake Boss: Next Great Baker,” stood in his office on the second floor surveying the hundred or so people waiting to get in. OL’ BLUE EYES is gone, so these days in Hoboken, they’re lining up for someone else. ![]()
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