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Evening Standard
Lucy Tobin

Cannoli and courtrooms: how an Italian lawyer and London GP are taking Italian baking global

Testing Sicilian cannolo recipes is quite the side hustle for an Italian corporate lawyer, based in Shanghai, and a Holborn-based GP.

But it’s exactly the mixed career that Matteo Cicero, a Sicilian lawyer who grew up with his grandmother’s baking, and London doctor Jonathan Hazon are juggling. Alongside their professional day jobs, the duo are behind an Italian bakery chain, Nonna, which has rapidly grown to 15 sites across China; they're now targeting 15 UK sites over the next five years, starting with a first branch that opened last September in Holborn.

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