Canatella’s Interiors is in its 24th year of making customers happy. “We strive to be a ‘yes store’,” Brandy Canatella Thompson says of the home interiors business she co-owns with her mother, Debbie Canatella.

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I’m always going to be respectful of them. Everything I know came from that place. From the Giacalone family, that’s where I learned everything. Putting my hands in the kitchen on the food, on the ingredients, that’s where I learned everything. I love Italy like I love Mexico (Chef Andrade’s native country), and I love the United States.