The century-old oven had been damaged in a collapse. As part of the repairs, which should be completed this summer, the bakery is transitioning the wood-burning oven to gas.
Phil Faragalli had worried that he'd never be able to reopen his South Philly family bakery again after the oven was damaged. But a fundraising effort has helped him seek repairs.It was a strange feeling, watching another man crawl inside his oven, but Phil Faragalli had nowhere else to turn.shortly after water department workers drilled into the street just outside.
“It’s so overwhelming,” Phil Faragalli said, on a recent afternoon. “Everybody and their mother gave. I can’t go nowhere without people coming up to me and saying they want to help. I just want to say thank you to everybody.” “The bread tasted the same when we used coal, and then we went to wood, and it tasted the same,” he said. “I know how to make bread.”
“We’re both institutions down here,” Di Stefano said. “And when one goes down, we all try to rally around them.”
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