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  • Schenck A, Van de Bor V, Bardoni B, Giangrande A (2002) Novel features of dFMR1, the Drosophila orthologue of the fragile X mental retardation protein.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles 2009

  • Giangrande's brother suffered serious injuries but Palermo and Giangrande were both pronounced death at the scene of the car acccident.

    Stupid Celebrities Gossip 2009

  • Another milestone in the spread of grandma pie: In 1989, Nocella (who died in 1999) accompanied Giangrande and Sal Fuschetto to a pizza-making contest in Farmingdale sponsored by Delicato Foods, a wholesaler.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • Just as Cesarano and Giangrande moved from Umberto's to King Umberto's, so dozens of pizza makers moved from the grandma-nexus of central-western Nassau west to Queens, south to the Five Towns, and even east into Suffolk County.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • Giangrande recalled that, over Fuschetto's objections (like Umberto, he was a bit of a traditionalist), he took the grandma pie.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • Giangrande developed a grandma pie that was thicker than the one he had left at King Umberto's, but still thinner than Umberto's.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • Cesarano and Giangrande were chatting with a customer, Anthony "Tippy" Nocella, about what to call the pie.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • "All the pizza guys loved it; everybody ate it," Giangrande said.

    The Big Apple 2009

  • With the help of Giangrande and the principals at Umberto's and King Umberto's in Elmont, we pieced together at least one version of the history of this Long Island specialty:

    The Big Apple 2009

  • During the '80s, they in turn hired two other pizza makers - first Ciro Cesarano, then Angelo Giangrande - who got their start at Umberto's.

    The Big Apple 2009

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