You don’t have to be Italian to eat like one. Just ask the Gallucci family, proud owners of Gust Gallucci’s Italian Foods & Market, 6610 Euclid Ave., which has been serving Northeast Ohio for more than 110 years. “My great-grandfather Gust came to the United States with his brother around 1908 and originally worked on the railroad,” says Marc R. Kotora, Gallucci’s vice president and fourth generation great-grandson of founder Gust Gallucci.

“When he got laid off from the railroad, he started going door-to-door selling fruits and vegetables from a wooden cart,” Kotora continues. “Many of his Woodland Avenue neighbors were also Italian and were longing for various foods from their homeland. He was able to source some of those items and, in 1912, he was able to open his first store.”