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Cooking with Giacomo World-renowned Chef Giacomo offers the finest in cooking class experience at Ricciardi’s Italian Table. Held at Ricciardi’s Italian Table, Chef Giacomo Guagliardo has all the ingredients: demonstrations focused on technique with dashes of personal tips blended with enchanting charisma for a fun, engaging, and informative class. The class is for the avid home cook and food enthusiast from beginner to advanced. Giacomo understands the majority of students wish to learn technique and tidbits to entertain during their own dinner parties. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Giacomo is a graduate chef from the Instituto Alberghiero School of Culinary Arts / Hotel & Restaurant Administration from the Universita degli Studi di Palermo. His culinary experience is worldwide. He was executive chef for Embassy Suite hotels in Miami/ Fort Lauderdale and opened Saluté and Roselli’s. He then debuted his own restaurants: Nick’s Tomato Pie and Giacomo’s Tomato & Basil, both in Jupiter. He served as director of the Italian fast-food chain Sbarro, where he opened restaurants around the world, including places such as Egypt, the Middle East, Central and South America, India, and Russia.
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Afterward, he was in Orlando to develop, design, and open Sbarro’s full-service Italian concept: Carmelas of Brooklyn. He moved to Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Winter Park to revamp the operation of the Mitchell’s Fish Market brand, where he met the owners of Ricciardi’s Italian Table, Joe Liguori, and his father, Michael “Pops” Liguori. Giacomo became executive chef, general manager, and director of operations at Ricciardi’s.
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Regarding the cooking class, “When Chef Giacomo came onboard, it came into fruition,” said Joe. “He has tons of experience in cooking, doing classes, presentations, and TV. It made it much easier to make it happen.” “I knew Giacomo was fully capable; it is his element,” said Joe of Giacomo’s class. “He does very well, and it has been a huge success for us.”
