Marechiaro's

Marechiaro's started with my father Benedetto Brunetto. Born in Palermo, Sicily in May of 1922, he grew up not far from there in a small, picturesque fishing village named Aspra. He spent his youth there fishing and then selling the day's catch from his bicycle. While fighting for his native Italy as a soldier during World War II, he was captured by the British in North Africa and taken to Scotland as a prisoner of war. He spent the rest of his service as a P. O. W working on a dairy farm. It was there that he met one of his future partners, John Belvedere.