I got e-mail from Joseph Costanzo’s daughter the other day. She and her father happened on my blog post about him and (as she wrote in a comment) were moved. Yesterday I received from Mr. Costanzo a handwritten note and some news clippings about him, plus a copy of DiRONA 2006, a nationwide directory of superb restaurants (including The Primadonna, of course).

Joe Costanzo is a class act. The world needs him to reenter the hospitality business and blaze new trails, and when he does, I’ll be there.