"What you don’t have, you don’t know and you don’t miss. You adapt to what is.” "
Every time that Flora Fine Foods CEO John Flora returns to his native Italy, he finds new ideas to bring home to South Florida.
Like Taralli, a crunchy olive-oily wheat biscuit. “It’s the most popular snack in all of southern Italy,” says the 68-year-old Parkland resident and company founder.
Flora Fine Foods was the first company to market the snack in the United States, Flora says. Now it’s a mainstay of the Coral Springs company’s growing inventory of imported Italian grocery items, alongside its sauces, olive oils, pastas, canned tomatoes, vinegars, and baked goods.
Flora, who immigrated to the U.S. with his dirt-poor parents at age 10, runs the bustling operation with his wife, Irene, and three adult children at a warehouse and distribution center in Coral Springs Research and Development Park off West Sample Road.
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