Giorgio DeLuca is a founder of the gourmet grocery store Dean & DeLuca ("a landmark for culinary adventurers"[1]) with his partner Joel Dean.
[2] Before that, DeLuca owned a cheese shop on Prince Street in New York City which he opened in 1973, after a brief career teaching history in the city's public school system.
[1] DeLuca was the owner of the restaurant Giorgione on Spring Street in SoHo, now closed.
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