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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

332: Paul Grieco

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2016

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Paul Grieco is the proprietor of Terroir, in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan.   See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

0:05.1

I'm Levy Dalton.

0:06.1

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Paul Greco on the show. Hello sir, how are you? I'm awesome Levy. How are you?

0:28.0

How are you? Very nice to have you. It's an honor to be at your abode. So you actually are Canadian, you grew up in Canada. I am a Canadian citizen.

0:35.3

Which is something Canadians do. Those two things are connected sometimes.

0:40.0

Yes, myself and Ted Cruz, of Canadian origin.

0:42.9

I didn't know you were going to go for the cruise one.

0:44.6

You got to go there fast.

0:45.6

Yeah, the missile.

0:46.6

Just pull it out.

0:47.7

So what was that like?

0:48.8

I mean, what was the Childhood Paul?

0:50.6

Childhood Paul was one who grew up in the restaurant industry, was one who grew up in a

0:56.6

pseudo-Italian environment because my father's family is of Italian extraction, but I'm fourth generation my mother's family is of

1:06.3

Irish and German extraction I think it's a classic combo at the end of the day and

1:10.4

while I didn't have to choose sides no one told me I had to be more Italian, but we were a Canadian family.

1:18.0

But I love the Italianness of the restaurant and therefore I pretended to be more Italian than not.

1:26.0

But it was very cool in that my grandfather started a restaurant in 1961 in Toronto.

1:31.0

My father started working there on the very first day and then as I like

1:35.1

to at least think I was literally born there in 1965. So I grew up in the restaurant world.

1:42.1

I grew up in the Italian restaurant world, though not a lick of

1:46.0

Italiano was spoken at my home. So you were actually born at the restaurant? Well, my father was at the

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