They took great care of me and I loved living with them. I lived with my brother John and his family. “As the disease progressed, I did less and less, and eventually had to stay home and give up working. Pino continued to work in the bakery for a few years. Around this time Pino was experiencing health issues and was eventually diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2002. The two brothers built the business from the ground-up. They chose the name Fratelli, which means brother in Italian. In 2001 John and Pino opened Fratelli’s Pastry Shop in Quincy.

“John may have taught me everything about baking, but in the end the student surpassed the teacher.” “I taught Pino everything he knows about the bakery business,” said John. John took Pino under his wing as an apprentice. In 1994, Pino decided to come back to the United States and stay with John, a professional baker. I learned the hard way - penguins bite!” The penguin was safely returned to the zoo later that night with the help from Pino’s uncle. We cornered it, put it in a box, and took it across town in a bus. “When I was seventeen my friends and I thought it would be fun to “borrow” a penguin from the Turin Zoo. “Pino was always adventurous and a bit mischievous,” said his brother John.

In the winter skied in the Alps, starting the day skiing in Italy and ending it in France, Switzerland, or Germany. When he wasn’t working, Pino played soccer for the Juventus Football Club, a professional team based in Turin. In Italy, Pino first worked as a fruit and vegetable broker, traveling across Europe to negotiate contracts between farmers and grocers, and farmers and restaurants. His brother John Milone, eighteen at the time, stayed with his grandmother in Quincy. When he was twelve years old he moved with his parents back to their family home in Turin, Italy.

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