''Staten Island Cakes'' is an American
food reality-television series airing on
WE tv. The series stars Vincent "Vinny" Buzzetta,
[ ] an
Italian-American
Italian Americans () are Americans who have full or partial Italians, Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeastern United States, Northeast and industrial Midwestern United States, Midwestern ...
cake artist who lives and works on
Staten Island
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, a
borough
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History
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of
New York City
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,
New York
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.
Cast
Vincent "Vinny" Buzzetta
Buzzetta was born on October 4, 1989, in the
Brooklyn
Brooklyn is a Boroughs of New York City, borough of New York City located at the westernmost end of Long Island in the New York (state), State of New York. Formerly an independent city, the borough is coextensive with Kings County, one of twelv ...
borough of New York City.
He and his family moved to Staten Island when he was 13 years old, but he continued to attend
Xaverian High School
Xaverian High School is an independent Catholic high school located in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, serving grades 6 through 12. Grades 9-12 offer a college preparatory program and grades 6-8 are middle school.
History
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in Brooklyn, from which he graduated in 2007.
[ In February 2008, Buzzetta graduated first in his class from the ]French Culinary Institute
The International Culinary Center (originally known as the French Culinary Institute) was a private for-profit culinary school from 1984 to 2020 headquartered in New York City, New York. The facilities included professional kitchens for hands- ...
located in New York City's Manhattan
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boroughthe youngest person ever to complete the institute's program.[ On October 31, 2008, with financial backing from his grandfather, Buzzetta opened his bakery, The Cake Artist, on ]Forest Avenue
Forest Avenue (formerly known as Green Street; colloquially known as Forest Ave) is a major street in Portland, Maine, United States. It runs for around , in the West Brighton
West New Brighton (also called West Brighton) is a neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City, situated in the central area of North Shore. The neighborhood is bordered by New Brighton to the east, Port Richmond to the west, the waters of ...
neighborhood [ of Staten Island.][
]
Other cast members
*Cammy Picciano, Buzzetta's mother
Episodes
References
External links
Staten Island Cakes – WE tvthecakeartistnyc.com
official website of The Cake Artist
*{{IMDb title, 2072706
2011 American television series debuts
2010s American cooking television series
2010s American reality television series
Cuisine of New York City
American English-language television shows
Food reality television series
Staten Island
Works about cakes
Italian-American culture in New York City