Coffeecake Connoisseur // He's Raised a Flock of Bakers - and Yeast Breads

When Helen Hulpinski asked Swap Shop for a yeast coffeecakerecipe, many folks sent in their favorites. Nathan Caliendo,however, contributed three of them!

Caliendo makes them all, changing an ingredient when it suitshim. He is "approaching 84," he says, and proudly told us that hisentire brood - three children, 10 grandchildren and fourgreat-grandchildren - are good bakers. "The boys really know how tocook," he said.

So does he. Caliendo cooks three meals a day as he takes careof his wife, now bedridden. He even has time to raise a sizablevegetable garden behind his South Side bungalow.

Here's one of Caliendo's yeast breads: Kolacz (Cheese coffeecake) …