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Chef Joey Campanaro Says His Big Family Helped Shape His Career

Joey Campanaro's acclaimed career as a chef started with a dream -- not for fame, but for a boat. Though Campanaro grew up with a mother and grandmother who methodically fed 10 to 15 people a day in the family's South Philadelphia neighborhood, it was his longing for a boat that landed him in the kitchen. "My father had a house down at the beach in the Jersey Shore and one year I told him I wanted a boat and he told me to get a job," Campanaro, 36, said. "So I got a job washing dishes." CLICK... Full Story
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