1897 - 1985

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• Birth	22 Oct 1897	Piacenza,, Italy
  Gender	Male
  Died	21 Jun 1985	Parma, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Person ID	I4258	Barbarowa Neighborhood
  Last Modified	14 Aug 2005 11:10:00
  Father	Joseph BOIARDI
  Mother	Mary MAFFI
  Family ID	F1614	Group Sheet
  Family	Helen J. WROBLEWSKI, b. 2 May 1905
  Married	7 Apr 1923	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Children	1. Mario J. BOIARDI
  Family ID	F1607	Group Sheet

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  Event Married - 7 Apr 1923 - Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth




• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: Hector Boiardi, an Italian chef, came to Cleveland's then-new Hotel Winton in 1917. His spaghetti dinners were soon the talk of the town. In 1924, he and his wife, Helen, opened Giardino d'Italia at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue. When customers asked for carry-out pasta, he opened a second kitchen, and in 1928, a factory. It turned out 60-cent, packaged Chef Boy-ar-dee Italian dinners - canned "secret" spaghetti sauce, dry spaghetti and grated Parmesan. He sold the line in the '40s. In 1931, he also opened Chef Boiardi's (later Chef Hector's) at 823 Prospect Ave., to offer "good food at modest prices." During World War II, at the government's request, he developed field rations. In 1946, he tried, unsuccessfully, to sell compressed restaurant scraps or "barnyard ravioli" as animal food. Later he made a fortune in the steel business. BIOGRAPHY: Source: CLEVELAND FOOD FAMILIES Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH)December 1, 1991Author: JANET BEIGHLE FRENCH PLAIN DEALER REPORTER