Buddy Valastro  star of  “Cake Boss” according to NBC 4 New York  was arrested in New York City Thursday morning on drunk driving charges.

The reality TLC TV Star of “Cake Boss is being held pending an arraignment hearing

Source: NBC 4 New York

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 On December 7, 2010 the Hoboken, Edward A. Dalton Boys & Girls Club will host their 13^th Annual fundraiser, “An Evening with Two Guys from Hoboken,” honoring the efforts of the neighborhood’s own Joe Pantoliano and Rich Pèpe. In collaboration with Hoboken’s oldest restaurant, event sponsor “Leo’s Grandesvous,” the duo will cook a family style Italian dinner for guests using Pèpe & Pants Pasta Sauce.   Also another neighborhood famous business, Carlos Bakery known for the home of the CAKE BOSS will be donating their famous cake for the evening’s event.   This family style event will raise funds to support the community’s youth development programs, as well as Pantoliano’s No Kidding, Me Too! NKM2 is Pantoliano’s own non-profit organization is dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness. All of the profits from Pèpe & Pants Pasta sauce is donated to NKM2.

The Mayor of Hoboken will present duo neighborhood friends, businessman and celebrity, Pantoliano and Pèpe with Keys to the City, in honor of their respective family’s contributions and in commemoration of their Italian heritage which now spans 3 generations. Spoken on behalf of the pair, Pèpe muses their start, “As you may know, our families emigrated from Italy through Ellis Island over a hundred years ago, settling in Hoboken, New Jersey. It was there that Joey and I learned the importance of close family ties, strong work ethic, and where we each developed a sense of community”.  Joey Pants echoes “  NEED A QUOTE”

Information for event is below:

 

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

5:30 PM Dinner & Award Ceremony

Hoboken Boys & Girls Club
123 Jefferson Street
Hoboken, NJ 07030

 

To buy individual tickets or a premiere sponsorship table for the event, contact:

Gary Greenberg / ggreenberg@bgchc.org / 201.333.4100 ext. 302

 

For more information on Pepe & Pants please visit http://pepeandpants.com/ and to read more about Joey Pantoliano go to www.joeypants.com.

 Joey founded No Kidding, Me Too! a non-profit organization dedicated to removing the stigma associated with mental illness

• Joey will make his directorial debut with his informative and moving documentary of the same name – No Kidding, Me Too! opens on April 24^th and can be seen starting May 24^th on WNET 13/PBS

 

• Joey is the co-founder of Pèpe & Pants Pasta sauce, which donates 100% of its profits to NKM2
• Joey is currently working on his upcoming book The Great Depression
• Joey was recently awarded a key to Hoboken, NJ in honor of his family’s contributions to the community and in commemoration of his Italian heritage which now spans 3 generations

 

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 If you look close the line stretches for two blocks or more.

 

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by Herb Fluke 

Now with all due respect to Discovery Communications TLC”s parent company, the  creators of Cake Boss-Shouldn’t the first thing you do when you take a name for a business  is do a simple  search for that name before deciding to use that name ? Especially in the Internet age. Especially for a high budget reality show like Cake Boss.   It  seems  Discovery Communications didn’t think they had to or it wouldn’t matter,  and now a  Seatle software company: Masters Software Inc; has come foreward to say that they own the name Cake Boss having used it  two years before the show ever hit the airways  to market a business management software for professional cake bakers called CakeBoss.

 

Read our Interview with Buddy Valastro

Seatle Judge Richard A. Jones   ruled on July 16th, 2010 in Masters Software Inc’s favor and granted a preliminary injunciton which bars Discovery Communications, TLC’s parent company, from using the name at the end of the third season pending a future trial. And that also means the name cannot be used on any associate merchandising.

Buddy Valastro known to millions of fans (which all seem to be waiting on line  everyday in front of Carlo’s bakery in Hoboken,) can’t be called the Cake Boss any longer? That’s like not being able to call Alex Rodriquez of the Yankees A-Rod or  Donald Trump the Donald. Everyone knows Mr. Valastro as the Cake Boss. Especially here in Hudson County-Cake Boss country.

Take a drive down Hoboken’s Washington Street and there are banners on every corner declaring Hoboken as home of the Cake Boss. What do we do with the Banners?

Cake Boss” premiered on TLC in April 2009. Masters Software co- owners Jon and Kelly Masters began marketing their Cake Boss software in 2007. When in court Kelly Masters stated that she contacted Discovery Communications when the show was first announced it would air Cake Boss  in 2009 and Discovery Communications declined to change the name stating that  no one would confuse the Cake Boss show with Masters’ Cake Boss software.  

She also stated that as a result of the show’s  success fans of the show began to contact Kelly and Jon Masters website www.cakeboss.com  asking for custom cakes to be made from Carlo’s Bakery in Hoboken. She further acknowledged that all though it brought increased traffic to their site it was annoying. Judge Jones also acknowledged that the Masters Software Inc Cake Boss site was  gaining favor from the shows success.

Our company had a similar problem five years ago  when we called our Bayonne Observer website www.insidebayonne.com we were contacted by representatives of  ebay claming we couldn’t use the site because the word ebay was clearly  spelled out in the middle of our websites name www.insidebayonne.com

We assured the representative for ebay that the name of our site was promoting the city of Bayonne, New Jersey and that it was a coincidence that the name ebay was spelled out and also that  the city of Bayonne was in existence much longer than ebay and we would not be changing our websites name.  Nor would we be selling and auctioning off  merchandise on our site. After careful review they agreed and said it would be fine to continue to use our name www.insidebayonne.com.

We were shocked to have even heard from ebay thinking how did a big company like ebay  know who  we were? We were told by a ebay representative that whenever a website is registerd and if  ebay appears anywhere within a websites name -they find out.

In Discovery Channel’s case the Master’s told them they had a software product named Cake Boss  and they did nothing. Even Judge Jones stated in the court that they should of conducted a simple search. In no way are we knocking Discovery Communications decision to not change the name in 2009, that was their decision to make  but come on guys -look at the end result.  Buddy Valastro is the Cake Boss, not Cup Cake, Cake Primo or Top Cake or Birthday Cake Boss or Choclate Cake Guy .

So what happens now?  What name do they call the Cake Boss show and  for that matter Buddy Valastro? Everyone knows him as the Cake Boss.

We would love to hear your suggestions for a new name. Contact obspublisher@aol.com and we will post the names you suggest here on our website or one of our staff will wait on the long line to get into Carlo’s Bakery and give  the suggestions to the Cake -Guy in person.

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TLC Monday Nights …10pm

By Sally Deering   Photos by David Bayne

No disrespect to Frank Sinatra, but Hoboken’s bouncing a new favorite son on its knee, a charismatic cake baker who followed in the floured footsteps of his father to become the star of his own reality TV show.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since the premiere of “Cake Boss,” tourists have turned the busy little bake shop into a must-see on their vacation itinerary. Out-of-town customers mingle with locals as they crowd into the red-bricked storefront bistro, nestling into café tables and “oohing” and “ahhing” the cannoli, cream puffs, brownies, layer cakes and other sensational home-made pastries on display. Digital cameras in hand, they pose for pictures with Valastro’s vivacious mom and personality-plus sisters while trying to decide what will satisfy their sweet tooth. And once they choose, they snap pictures of each other giddily diving into their desserts — and, rightly so. I mean, have you ever tasted a Carlo’s “lobster claw?”

 

“Anybody else, come on down,” Valastro’s mom calls out to the crowd after posing for a snapshot with Valastro’s sibs and Cristin Wright, 15, of Rhode Island who came to taste the desserts she sees every week on the show.

 

“I’m a fan,” Wright says, beaming after her photo opp. “I watch it every Monday night. I like to watch them make the cakes. I hope to be a pastry chef when I grow up.”

Throughout the day, crowds pour through the door leaving little doubt that the Cake Boss’s star is on the rise.

As sweet as the cream in his tiramisu, Valastro, 32, is warm, funny and passionate about his family and the tradition of baking.  And beneath the celebrity stardust and the boisterous persona that hoots and hollers, cajoles and kibitzes is a humble baker who wears his heart on his chef’s coat sleeve for the man who taught him everything he knows — his dad, Buddy Sr., who passed away long before the cameras came.

“When I was 5, my dad would take me to the bakery on weekends and sit me up on the bench and roll out Pasta Frola,” Valastro says in his tiny upstairs office during a break from taping. “He would give me a cookie cutter and I would cut out cookies and decorate them. It was a fun time with my dad. Then when I was 11, I started making a difference helping out in the store. The more I was there, the more I was intrigued. I looked up to my dad. I wanted to mimic him.”

Valastro comes from a long-line of bakers. His grandfather baked bread in Sicily and Valastro’s father Buddy, Sr., learned the trade. At 13, he went to work for Carlo’s on 4^th and Adams Sts. in Hoboken, a popular bake shop that had been around since 1910.  When he married Mary several years later, the couple bought the bakery and kept the name. Inside the current shop, if you stand near the pie case, you’ll see a photograph of Mary and Buddy, Sr., in their Adams Street store holding a smiling baby Buddy “Cake Boss” Jr.

 

Having a dad as a baker, meant that birthday cakes were something special at home and Valastro recalls the time his father made him a Batman Cave cake.

“My dad was a great cake decorator,” Valastro remembers.

 Buddy Sr., passed away when Valastro was 17 and although he never attended culinary school, he dedicated himself to continuing the family business and “putting it on the map.” Back then, Valastro says, birthday and wedding cakes were very traditional, usually made with whipped cream icing and buttercream rosettes. So, Valastro began working with fondants and other new culinary techniques. When he opened Carlo’s Bake Shop in its present location, he was still in his 20s and the business and his career started taking off. He entered several Food Network bake-offs – winning a $10,000 wedding cake challenge — and pitched his own show. The TLC network liked the idea and even christened him “Cake Boss.” After the first season aired, the TLC aired a “Cake Boss” marathon and that’s when Valastro, his Hoboken bakery and family became reality show stars.

On a recent visit to the Bake Shop, TLC cameras were filming an episode with Valastro and his kitchen crew creating a cake for the Camden Aquarium. Valastro was experimenting with liquid sugar to make coral, pouring the hot mixture into pitchers of ice cubes. When the blue, orange and yellow sugars chilled, he gently shook them loose and they looked just like aquarium coral. The challenges of creating novelty cakes inspires Valastro and he just keeps topping himself like in the episode where he had to create a mechanical robot cake and then deliver his niece’s roller-skate-themed birthday cake – on roller-skates.

 And now that the show is a huge hit, customer requests are getting more elaborate, Valastro says, “They don’t want a cake they want a cake that will spin, talk and move.”

 And then there are all those lobster tails to make. The big demand for this scrumptious delight makes it the most popular pastry in the shop, Shaped like, well, lobster tails, they have a crunchy exterior, like a light, sweetened Shredded Wheat biscuit filled with a sweet cream that sends taste buds into orbit.  Valastro says they’re difficult and time-consuming to make, but even he admits it’s his favorite pastry when a craving calls for something sweet.

Valastro’s craving for the sweet smell of success hasn’t gone to his head although it can be a bit daunting, he says, like when he visits New York City and sees himself on a huge billboard in Times Square. He’s both surprised at the show’s popularity and grateful for all that “Cake Boss” has brought to his family business. There’s just one special ingredient missing in his piece of the pie – the dad who inspired him with just one little cookie cutter.

CAKE BOSS can be seen on The Learning Channel (TLC) Monday nights at 10pm   CAKE BOSS show schedule and times

Carlo’s Bake Shop

95 Washington Street,

 Hoboken, NJ 0730

201-659-3671 

visit them on the web @ www.carlosbakery.com

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The Star of The Learning Channel’s

 

  Confectioner extraordinaire Buddy Valastro, the accomplished fourth-generation baker and the owner of Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop in Hoboken, will be the first speaker in this season’s free Lecture Series at Hudson County Community College. Mr. Valastro will appear on Thursday, November 19 at 6:00 p.m. at the College’s Culinary Arts Institute/Conference Center, 161 Newkirk Street – two blocks from the Journal Square PATH Station in Jersey City. There is no charge for admission.

 

 Hudson County Community College President Dr. Glen Gabert said the theme of this year’s series is “Reaching New Heights,” and that the other speakers are: Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, one of America’s most renowned authors and social/cultural observers who will appear on February 11, 2010; and Rita Moreno, one of only a few performers to have won all four of the nation’s major entertainment awards – the Oscar, the Tony, the Grammy and the Emmy – who is scheduled to appear on March 17, 2010.

 “We are very happy that Buddy Valastro will be with us. We feel a special camaraderie with him because he is a Hudson County native, and because of our shared ties in the culinary world,” Dr. Gabert said, referring to the College’s acclaimed Culinary Arts Institute.

 With the help of his family, Mr. Valastro has indeed, taken their bakery to “new heights,” and he has said he was “born into this business and practically has icing in my blood.” Mr. Valastro learned his trade of baking and decorating cakes by working as his father’s apprentice in the family’s bakery on Washington Street. Utilizing his father’s time-honored recipes and his own innovative decorating and sugar art techniques, Valastro has created cakes that are as delicious as they are elaborate and beautiful, including the circus-themed confection he created for Britney Spears’ 27th birthday. His creations have earned him and the family business national acclaim with stories in The New York Times and several national newspapers and magazines as well as appearances on Good Morning America, The Today Show, and the Food Network. The Cake Boss, which premiered on The Learning Channel last spring, chronicles Mr. Valastro’s desire to achieve his late father’s dream of making Carlo’s City Hall Bake Shop a household name.

 Tickets for Valastro’s lecture will be available as of 11:00 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 19 for HCCC students, faculty and staff members from the College’s Office of Student Activities. Limited tickets will also be available for the public. For more information on the HCCC Lecture Series, please visit the College’s web site at www.hccc.edu or phone the Office of Student Activities at (201) 360-4199.

 

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