History
Starting with just a taste of her Grandfather's handmade gelato, founder Cristiana Ginatta started her life-long romance with the dessert at a young age. Growing up, everywhere she traveled led to new flavors - each region specializing in a unique recipe with local ingredients and techniques. As a young woman, she attended culinary school, focusing on the art of traditional gelato-making and perfected her skills in one of the finest family-run gelaterias in Turin, Italy. In 2000 Cristiana, her husband Ugo and his son Vincenzo moved to Dallas, Texas. The Ginattas soon found that what they missed most about the Old World was the wonderful flavors of Gelato - the delicious gelati. They then decided that in Dallas, their family's mission was to share these incredible flavors with their new hometown. With a lot of hard work and dozens of new gelato recipes, Paciugo (an Italian word meaning