This month, Angelo D'Alo will open Agrodolce, a Sicilian restaurant in Berkeley. But from the very start, there was little doubt that he would get into the restaurant business.

His food career began improbably decades ago as a San Francisco Chronicle paper boy. His mother, Rosa D'Alo, was bored as a housewife in the 1980s and was itching to tap into the kind of soulful cooking she learned growing up in Palermo. So, she decided to start selling Sicilian-style pizzas cooked out of her Parkmerced home.

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