Tomasso and Sarina Cavallaro opened their family run Italian patisserie in 1956. Now, their children and grandchildren continue the tradition of making ricotta, vanilla custard and chocolate-filled cannoli by hand. Pictured here is Tomasso’s son, Tony, who was only a few months old when his father opened the shop.



“Footscray has always been a place that migrants come to when they’re looking for a new life and a better future," says Tony. "In my father’s generation it was the Europeans coming in after the war, in 1970s it was the Vietnamese, then in the 1990s it was the East Africans after conflict in the region.”