Can tiramisu and a daughter's love get a former caterer to the stars through tough times?
If you think of life as a meal served in courses, Giovanni Bolla has been handed plate after plate piled high.
Success once bought Bolla a house in the western Hollywood Hills, perched high on Hercules Drive on Mount Olympus.“I got really lost,” says this very warm, slightly rumpled man, who once was at home incrisply pressed black tie. Because as Bolla puts it, you have to see the rain to appreciate the sweetness of the sunshine that comes after.Bolla, who was born in Asti, Italy, for a while lived a charmed life. As a young man, he went to hotel school, then traveled the world on cruise ships, waiting tables that tilted in storms. When he set foot on the dry land of Los Angeles in 1969, at 21, he was hired right away as the maitre d’ of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Still, those triumphs, proudly preserved in stacks of crumbling photo albums, came before a long, slow slide. But what can you do really when you are facing older-parent issues so early, just as you are trying to launch your own adult life? Bolla made Isabelle and her husband tiramisu for at least 30. They knew they couldn’t and shouldn’t eat it all. So they shared it with their Encino neighbors and even gave the mailman a slice. Right away the tasters asked how they could get more.
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