Carrying Forward a Tampa Tradition: Phil Alessi Jr. on Family and Legacy

Some of Phil Alessi Jr.’s earliest memories are dusted in flour.

Not baking it, necessarily. Playing in it.

As a child, he climbed atop towering stacks of flour bags in the family’s bakery, explored behind-the-scenes corners of the business and eagerly followed his grandfather around. Long before he understood what it meant to run a business, like the iconic Alessi Bakery, Alessi was learning what it meant to be part of one…

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