The reader will enjoy and appreciate the author's account of his rise from relative obscurity in one small Calabrian town to being a major factor in the Italian olive oil industry. His career spanned a period of much change in Italian society which began at a time when nineteen century customs and values were still dominant to the present day at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Throughout he maintained a strong commitment to family in periods of adversity as well as in good times. He provides a close look at small town thinking and customs as he moves from times of scarcity to times...

The reader will enjoy and appreciate the author's account of his rise from relative obscurity in one small Calabrian town to being a major factor in the Italian olive oil industry. His career spanned a period of much change in Italian society which began at a time when nineteen century customs and values were still dominant to the present day at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Throughout he maintained a strong commitment to family in periods of adversity as well as in good times. He provides a close look at small town thinking and customs as he moves from times of scarcity to times...