Augusto Baldini
New Canaan Teen Launches Portable Pizzeria
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Augusto Baldini, 17, a pure-blooded Italian who graduated from New Canaan High School two weeks ago, half-seriously proposed the idea of a portable pizzeria business with his family several weeks ago. He’d been cooking pizza for his family in their wood-fired oven on the patio, as they like to do in the summer, and innocently asked, “What if I started this pizza business where I went house-to-house and made pizzas for people?”
“They said, ‘Sure, it could be a good idea,’ but we never really thought of it again,” Baldini recalled on a recent morning during an interview at New Canaan Library. “And then I had an event for my mom. She hosted a bunch of people over for work at our house, and she asked would I mind cooking pizzas for them? I said sure, of course.