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Com slash DoB's Media. In 1924, Dutch settlers founded the city of New Amsterdam.

If that name sounds unfamiliar, you may know it by the name assigned by the British Crown after assuming

control of the settlement in 1664. New York. New York City, also known as the Big Apple

and the City that Never Sleeps, would go on to become the most

populous city in the new nation of America, as well as one of the most famous cities in the entire world.

Musicians from Frank Sinatra to Beyoncé have even serenated the center of habitation and culture in beloved songs.

But what if a resident of New York City were to move all the way across the country to the city of Los Angeles.

This unprecedented cross-continental displacement was exactly what Nick Andresano did in 1979, trading the subways of New York for the freeways of Los Angeles.

Andresano quickly noticed something was missing in the Southern California Metropolis, also known as the City of Angels, or simply L.A. Italian food.

New York City boasts a thriving Italian culinary scene, most notably pizza, served in a signature New York style due to its

sizable population of Italian immigrants and their descendants. But Los Angeles, a

settlement that borders the Pacific Ocean as opposed to the Atlantic,

and is historically linked to Mexico and its Spanish colonizers

has far weaker ties to the European nation of Italy.

So Andresano, himself an Italian American whose family operated a pizza restaurant or

Pizzeria in New York, opened an upscale Italian establishment in Los Angeles, which quickly

grew to three locations.

After partnering with fellow Italian-American Angelo Philato,

the duo opened a fast casual version of the concept,

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