Ugo DiMare enjoys baking and loves his family, but never dreamed of mixing the two. Running a bakery shop is so much work, DiMare thought. He did not want to burden his daughters. Despite his worries, they blended.

"We used to sweat to make a $100," said one daughter, Maria DiMare-McGrath, 59. "My father felt it was a hard life, and he didn't want me or my sister to go into the baking business." Forty years later, Maria and her sister, Sabrina, work full time alongside their father and mother, Bice, and a number of relatives in two DiMare pastry shops in Stamford, and one in Greenwich.

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Source: http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/