A LIFE REMEMBERED: Derby man valued humility, work ethic

By Tom Veilleux
Register Staff
DERBY — A meat cutter by trade and one heck of a cook, Richard Carloni always tried to inspire his kids to “remember where you came from.”
“Both of our families came from poor relations in Italy,” said his wife of 49 years, Carolyn. “Dick wanted our children to have a better life than his parents had and to get them to work very hard to achieve that better life. One of the things he did was to cook all these ‘peasant’ foods for them. He would say, ‘This is what our parents had to eat because they had nothing else.’ This inspired all of our kids to become great cooks. And it gave them the ability to be able to make something from nothing.”

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