Another one of our guests of honor attending the Authentic Italian Table dinner, June 3, at Terra restaurant at Eataly is good friend of the chamber Richard Gussoni, the honorary Italian consul for Dallas/Ft. Worth and and founder and CEO of one of the most successful high-end catering and events planning companies in the state of Texas — Culinaire International.

As early as the late 1990s, his company had emerged as one of the go-to caterers in Dallas/Ft. Worth. But Richard’s family’s legacy as chefs to luminaries and celebrities stretches all the way back to Italy where one of his relatives was once the head chef at the Vatican.