"He does almost everything better than me" quips Nello Ferrara.

"He does almost everything better than me" quips Nello Ferrara, the chairman of the Ferrara Pan Co motioning to his son Salvatore. "Well, almost everything," he emphasizes. "He doesn't sing."

Anyone familiar with Nello knows that this 65-year veteran of the confectionery industry doesn't toss abroad praise like that helter-skelter. It has to be earned.

And anyone familiar with Nello knows that the dean of this fourth-generation family business wait ons to be harder on his admit than others. Just ask Sal.

The 51-year-old president and chief operating officer of Ferrara Pan Candy Co and this