Piecasso in Stowe.
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The Rovetto cousins have a common passion and profession. Carlo Rovetto owns Positive Pie, with locations in Plainfield, Montpelier, and Hardwick. Cousin Eduardo Rovetto is the proprietor of Piecasso in Stowe. Born two years apart, the sons of Sicilian immigrants grew up challenging each other on skateboards and BMX bicycles. They describe themselves as “double first cousins,” since the relationship is based on two brothers who married sisters. Carlo was the first Rovetto to open a pizzeria in central Vermont, but Ed was happy to follow in his footsteps.
The Rovetto’s introduction to the pizza world came from their Uncle John, who worked and learned the trade in a bakery in New Jersey. Later, John moved to Upstate New York and taught the craft to his siblings, and Ed’s parents opened their own pizzeria in Central Square, New York. “The bus would drop me off there after school,” Ed says. “I started at a really young age, learning the work ethic and rolling dough by hand. It was part of who I was.” Ed went to school to study photography, but when his advisor suggested he move to Manhattan, the thought of becoming a starving artist lost some of its appeal. He headed to North Carolina instead, spending summers surfing and working with a cousin who—not surprisingly— had a pizza business, and winters skiing at either Breckenridge or Killington. After five years, Ed’s parents suggested it was time to choose a path and stick with it. Recognizing that he could always have photography as a hobby, he opened a pizzeria in North Carolina with his mother and father. It was still only a summer location, so he opened another one on the Syracuse University campus for the off season. When his father grew tired of moving back and forth, they closed the North Carolina location. Ed might have been content staying in Syracuse if he hadn’t visited his cousin Carlo in Vermont. “I fell in love with Stowe Mountain and its town immediately. I knew right away I needed to move here! It was as close to being in the Rockies as I would get, but without the plane ride,” he says. Ed turned the Syracuse location over to his father and moved the North Carolina equipment to Vermont. www.bestofcentralvt.com
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