New Jersey's oldest pizzeria still sizzles

Sep 03, 2015 769

by Sarah Griesemer

A 2-year-old boy wears a white apron, his sleeves rolled up to his elbows. He is perched atop a chair, too small to reach the counter without it. His small hands are starting to shape a soft round of pizza dough, an action he doesn't yet know he will repeat for the next 66 years.

That little boy is Nick Azzaro, now 68, and the photograph that represents his start in the family business hangs in the dining room of Papa's Tomato Pies. "They used to drag me out of bed," Azzaro said with a laugh about his parents, Dominick "Abbie" and Tessie Azzaro, who ran the Trenton pizzeria after taking over from his grandparents, Giuseppe (Joseph) and Adalene Papa.

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Source: http://www.app.com/

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