Melissa Muller Daka, on Everything but Food

Her bio claims that Melissa Muller Daka opened her first restaurant, Osteria del Gallo, at the age of 23, but she actually opened Melissa’s Place, a quaint spot in her backyard clubhouse, when she was four years old. Though she grew up in her mother’s kitchen in New York, Muller Daka was most influenced by her childhood years in her grandmother’s native Sicily, where she made cheese,...