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Anthony Caliendo: multi-talented international best-selling author. Motivational speaker. Film producer. Actor. One of South Florida’s most prolific entrepreneurs of his time with a string of successful, brand-recognizable businesses. You may know him as The Main Man, The Sales Assassin or even The Big Cheese. But what you don’t know is: cooking is in his blood.

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How does a street kid from Chicago learn to dream big against all odds, circumvent his circumstances to become a force within the business world, survive through plot twist after plot twist, becoming the master of reinvention and staying-on-top, only to discover that one of his biggest passions in life is a real thing? That thing: getting “chef’d up” and killing it in the kitchen for his friends and huge Italian family with the finest Italian-American food you’ve ever tasted. How? He's a Caliendo.

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Chef’d Up: I Do It My Way is the story that you’ve never heard before. In it, Caliendo shares his wild food journey: the good, the bad, the ugly, the real ugly, and eventually, the best of the best. From the old neighborhood: Taylor & Racine, to South Florida with the wife and kids and way, way beyond, Chef’d Up cookbook features over 80 recipes of the best in classic and innovative Italian-American cuisine, including Caliendo’s signature sauces, sides, salads and main courses. Plus... we honor a few “Friends of Ours.”

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Oh, and the recipes? “Fuhgedaboudit,” made with Caliendo’s very own line of Caliendo® brand premium olive oils, balsamic vinegars and Italian cheeses.

 

Mangia!