“Smithfield made a person out of me” – Valentina’s deli entrepreneur

“I’ve all the time cherished meals – sadly I’m obese and feature a little of diabetes thru my love of meals: I’m addicted,” Zoccola provides. “Elderly 10, my folks would inform me at part previous 5, you wish to have to verify the pasta is on and the sauce is there, get the whole lot able for after we come house from paintings.” He spent the Noughties cooking up an empire, with extra deli-restaurants opening in Putney, Sevenoaks, Notting Hill, Weybridge, Reigate, Chiswick, Tower Bridge and Battersea over the following seven years. “We had 10 at our height, however then all of it went incorrect,” Zoccola says. “When Jamie Oliver, Carluccios, and Prezzo all hit a brick wall and needed to cull their empires again, I needed to do the similar. We couldn’t continue to exist.”