PRESS: Ciccio’s Olives carries on Italian family traditions

“For Pino and Laura Pugliano, olive oil is synonymous with family, culture and tradition.

Pino Pugliano shares a boyhood memory of toasting bread over an open fireplace to dip into olive oil produced on his family’s farm in Calabria, a region in southern Italy that’s famous for its blue sea waters and ancient villages.

Laura Pugliano recalls trying the oil for the first time while dining in the middle of the family’s olive grove and realizing she’d never tasted anything like it.

And although it wasn’t part of their plan for their lives, olive oil has become a business for the couple, who recently opened Ciccio’s Olives on South Fifth Avenue in West Reading, Berks County…”

Read the entire article on our recent news in the Reading Eagle here!

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