La PORTE — An acclaimed chef who now calls La Porte home is embarking on opening a nonprofit culinary school.
“The hospitality business is vast, but one of the things I believe makes the world go round is food,” Chef Marcello Marino said during Monday’s La Porte Rotary meeting.
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