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The AMALFI COAST ITALY

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

FRANK and DINO

FRANK & DEAN

Dean Martin aka DINO CROCHETTI

with FRANK SINATRA

Partying as Usual

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RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

Like FRANK SINATRA 'S FAMILY

Author DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE 'S FAMILY Comes From

LERCRA FRIDDI SICILY

As did SALVATORE "LUCKY" LUCIANO

GREAT RECIPES FROM DANIEL'S NONNA GIUSEPPINA

And The REST of  The BELLINO FAMILY

FRANK SINATRA TOO !

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DiFara Pizza is Open Re-Opened

Di FARA PIZZA

Di FARA PIZZA Fans Rejoice ! DiFara Pizza is open again. DiFara Pizza on Avenue J in Midwood, Brooklyn has reopened, and selling pizza once again to its legions of loyal fans. Yes Pizza Lovers rejoice as their favorite Pizzeria is open once again after a short closing by the New York State Department of Taxation.

On Thursday, the mayor celebrated the “Brooklyn icon” reopening, Tweeting, “Glad to know the best slice in town will still be in Midwood for years to come."

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The De MARCO Family are rejoicing. There dispute with NYS Tax Department has been resolved and they re-opened New York's beloved DiFara Pizza once again. Fans were in despair, but they need not fret, their brief scare is over. Dom DeMarco is back at his oven turning out New York's, America, and the World's Best Pizza once again.

Dom DeMarco Jr. Tweeted on the DiFara Twitter account, "Just got the Keys back! Thank You New York !"

Yes, all of we PIZZA LOVERS are Happy Campers as our beloved DiFARA PIZZA is open once again, with the legendary Pizza Maestro Mr. Dominic DeMarco turning out the World's Tastiest and best Pizza on Planet Earth. "We kid you not ! It really is the world's Best Pizza, " just add any of Dom DeMarco's millions of fans.

 

Dom DeMarco Art

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Mark Iacono with Dominic DeMarco

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The Worlds Best Pizza DiFara

The Great Dominic DeMarco Makes America's Best Pizza

Di FARA PIZZA , BROOKLYN

NEW YORK

DOM is da BOMB !

This Man Makes The WORLD'S BEST PIZZA

The BEST PIZZA in NEW YORK = 's The BEST PIZZA in AMERICA. Some say Dom DeMarco's Pizza is the Best in the WOrld, I tend to agree. Trust me, I just came back from Napoli, considered the Pizza Capital of The World, with the WORLD'S BEST PIZZA, Dom DeMarco makes better Pizza than any of those guys in Naples. I ate at Di Matteo (good, but far from great. Dom is Better), the fame Da Michele, the Pizzeria that Julia Roberts made famous, eating Pizza there in the movie Eat, Pray, Love. Di Fara Pizza is better, plain and simple, the truth is the truth, no matter what the masses think, as they are mostly followers, and often wrong. Dom DeMarco makes the World's BEST PIZZA at his Brooklyn pizzeria Di Fara Pizza on Avenue J in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York.

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SICILIAN RECIPES

FROM NONNA BELINO and Her FAMILY

DiFara Pizza Closed over Back Taxes

A Shuttered DiFara Pizza stuns its Loyal Customers

Loyal Patrons Can't Get Their Favorite Pizza as New York State Dept of Taxation Closes our Beloved DiFara Pizzeria for back taxes. But the Great Pizza Maestro Dom DeMarco 's daughter says they'll be back open soon. It is alleged that DiFara Pizzeria owes $164,000 in back taxes, and has a payment plan set up with the NYS Dept of Taxaxtion. The DeMarco Family missed one dam payment and the SOB s at the New York State Department of Taxation closed the best PIZZA joint in NEW YORK.

Dom DeMarco makes another GREAT PIE

"The BEST PIZZA in NEW YORK"

Thus The Best Pizza in America

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Italian Recipes

EVEN NEW YORK MAYOR BILL DiBLASO Weighs in on the closing of DiFARA PIZZA ... Mayor de Blasio TWEETED on TWITTER that DiFARA has the BEST PIZZA in NEW YORK CITY and "IT MUST BE SAVED"  Mayor de Blasio said that he is ready to do anything he can to get DiFara Pizza opened again - as are thousands of NEW YORK CITY PIZZA LOVERS ...

See Mayor de Blasio's TWEET below.

 

 

de Blasio has stated that DiFARA has The BEST PIZZA in NEW YORK

DOM DeMARCO TALKS PIZZA

MAYOR BILL de BLASIO Eating a slice of NY PIZZA

GOVENOR CUOMO  is AGAINST May de BLASIO

on the Mayor's Support of DiFARA PIZZA in Midwood


I'm usually with Governor Andrew Cuomo on most issues he's involved in, his polcies, and his running the State of New York. Govenor Cuomo is picking a fight with de BLASIO on his support of DiFARA PIZZA and its current problem with the state Taxaion Department and the issue of the DeMarco's family's unpaid taxes of their famous Pizzeria in Brooklyn.

Likd most New Yorkers in the know pizzaiolo Dominic DeMarco and his pizzeria DiFara Pizza is a beloved and cherished institution f New York City, and was shut down the other day for the delinquent taxes. This has outraged DiFara's multitude of fans of Dom DeMarco and his Pizza, of which many feel (as I do) is the BEST PIZZA in the city of New York.

The mayor loves DiFara and their pizza and has said that he wants to do anything he can to help the DeMarco family with their current tax problem, and to get DiFara Pizza opened once again. Thhe mayor never said anything about forgiving the business of their taxes due, but Governor Cuomo has butted in, insinuating that Mayor de Blasio wants to forgive the pizzeria of the taxes due, and that the Mayor doesn't have the authority to do so. The Mayor never said that that's what he wanted to do. He just said e wanted to help, and the people of New York are happy the mayor wants to help the DeMarco family get their pizzeria open again. "Get a Grip Governor, and stop twisting things around just to get i a fight with Mayor de Blasio and be against him. This is not what the people of the city of New York want. We want to see DiFara Pizza open, and as soon as possible. Why you fighting this Andrew? I;m surprised.

"We want DiFara! We want our Pizza!" Get Bent Governor Cuomo.

Dom DeMarco makes another Great Pie

?We want to See this Continue."

  #Pizza #BestPizzaNY #DifaraPizza Dom DeMarco

Bellino Makes a Better Burger than MinettaTavern

MINETTA TAVERN

Good Burgers, but Far From The Best

New York's Best Burger? Who makes it? Or who makes, plural, New York's Best Burgers. Well first off, Minetta Tavern does not make the Best Burger in New York. Far from it. And of the Burgers at Minetta Tavern, forget the highly overrated Black Label Burger, the Minetta Burger has it beat, though there are better Burgers in New York. For, one, the Burger I make at my house in Greenwich Village, just two blocks away from Minetta Tavern is far superior, a buch tastier burger than you'll get at Minetta Tavern., but there's one thing we have in common when making New York's best burger. And the Burger I make in my house is way Better than the Burgers at Minetta Tavern.

So what's the difference you ask? And you want to know what it is I have in common with the Burgers at Minetta Tavern? The thing I have in common with Minetta Tavern when making my Burger that is without question one of the Best in New York, and for a whole lot less money (about $3.10). Yes, thing that Minetta Tavern has in common with me, in our Burger making, is that we both buy our meat from pat LaFrieda, it's just that I use the better blend than Minetta Tavern. The Black Label Burger Blend by Pat LaFrieda is made with Dry Aged Beef, which though people would want you to think otherwise, dry aged beef is one of the worst things you can use to make a burger. Dry Aged Beef is old meat, and is actually meat that is deteriorating. It's much better to use fresh beef when making a burger, and that's all their is to it, and Minetta Tavern uses Dry Aged Beef for its Black Label Burger. Not good.

I have in the past year used numerous sources to buy ground beef for my burgers. I buy meat from one of the best Butcher Shops in New York, which is Florence Prime Meat Market on Jones Street in Greenwich Village. I've been buying Sausages, and Steaks from this great old Italian Butcher, which to me is the best butcher shop in all of New York. I mostly bought steaks here, and it's relatively recently that I started buying ground beef to make burgers with. I was there buying myself a Newport Steak (Specialty of The House) one day, when I watched an elderly neighborhood lady getting individual Hamburger Patties made for her. I started chatting with here about the burgers, and she said she loved them, so I said I'd get some of them, my next time at the butcher shop, and so I did a couple weeks later. I've tried both the chuck and the sirloin ground beef from the market. They both made fine burgers.

Trader Joe's recently opened in my neighborhood, and I've tried a couple different types of their ground beef (80/20 and 85/15 ratios), and they both made pretty good burgers.

Today, I wanted to get a couple burger patties from Florence Prime Meats, but they were closed when I got there, so I made my way over to Grestide's. I went to the meat counter and spotted Pat LaFrieda's Burger Blend made with Beef Brisket, Chuck, and Beef Short Ribs. There were 4 Patties in the package, for $8.99, at $2.25 a Burger, it's more than I normally spend, but if I can get a better burger it will be well worth it. I'm still trying to get a Burger to taste as good as the ones I made from the meat that my cousin Joe gave me, that was a package of 4 Black Angus Burger Patties from Wayside Market in Southhold, New York, on the North Fork of Long Island. The Burgers I made with that meat, may very well be the Best Burgers I've ever had in my life. "I kid you not," and I have witnesses to back me up on this. Anyway, I wanted to see if this Burger Blend from pat LaFrieda could come close, or dear I say, be better than those Burgers made with the Black Angus Patties from Wayside Market.

So I bought the burger blend and headed on home. I got my stuff ready. I sliced some New York Cheddar Cheese, and sliced some onions. I toasted and buttered an English Muffin, heat my pan, poured in a bit of oil, and threw my burgers in to cook. As the burgers were cooking, I put a little dijon Mustard on one side of the Muffin. I seasoned the burger with salt, and flipped it over to the other side. Then I seasoned the top side with salt and black pepper. The Burgers cooked another 4 minutes, and then I turned the heat off and let the burger rest for 3 minutes before putting it on top of cheese on on side of the muffin. A put a little nob of butter on top of the burger, then a little Ketchup before topping the Burger with the other half of the bun. I put it on the plate and brought it to the table. I grabbed the burger, bit into it, and from the very first bite, I htought "Wow," it was a dam good burger, and better than any of the meat I'd bought in the past year, including Florence Prime Meat. Wow, this was impressive, and the Pat LaFrieda meat was well worth the bit more than I paid for it, and a real bargain when you consider that a McDonald's McDouble cost about $2.69, and a superior burger like this, with more meat, cost just about .35 Cents more than the inferior McDonald's Cheeseburger. Dam!

Yes, I loved the burger. This Burger that I just made at my house was without question better than almost any burger I've had in New York. my Cheeseburger was better than The Black Label Burger at Minetta Tavern, or the Minetta Burger, it's better than the Shake Shack Burger which I normally love but wasn't that happy with their burgers the last two times I was at Shake Shack (Mine is Better). My Burger tasted better than the JG Melon Cheeseburger (I Love), but not better than the Burger I had at Charle's Prime, which was the only Burger I've had in New York City that was better than the Burger I made at home.: But as good as this burger I made at home with the Pat LaFrieda Burger Blend, "it was Dam Good, but not as Good as the Burger that I made at home with the burrgers from that box of 4 Black Angus Patties from Wayside Market of Southhold, NY.

The BEST BURGERS I'VE HAD in NEW YORK

Cooked at My House in GREENWICH VILLAGE

with BLACK ANGUS BEEF PATTIES from WAYSIDE MARKET

SOUTHOLD NEW YORK

NORTH FORK of LONG ISLAND

"MY BURGERS Are The BEST" !!!

DBZ BURGER

CRAFTED by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

Classic, "It's all about the Meat ? Properly seasoned with Salt & Black Pepper. nicely browned,

place on a toasted Bunm with CHEESE, Pickles, a bit of Ketchup, and Mustard if you like, and that's it"

No Muss, No Fuss. The ground beef must be of the highest quality, and with a fair amount of fat for flavor.

These two points are key. You should buy Prime Ground Beef if you can, it's worth the extra money. 

"Trust Me"

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BELLINO MAKES NEW YORKS

BEST BURGER

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SAUCE or GRAVY What Do You Call It ?

SAUCE or GRAVY ?

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT ?

Italian-American sauce (Gravy) made with Sausage, Meatballs, Braciole, and maybe Pork Neck, Pork Spare Ribs, Veal Shank, and whatever each individual who is makig it, likes to put in it. Each Italian Family has there own special way of making this the most Supreme Dish of the Italian-American Table.

It's made each and every Sunday by hundreds of thousands of Italians all over America. It's served with short maccheroni pasta of the family's choice. It can be with Rigatoni, Ziti, Cavatelli, or which ever pasta is chosen. Most families serve the meats with the pasta, but some serve the pasta with a little sauce (no meats) dressing the Maccheroni as one course, and after serving the pasta this way, they serve the Braised Meats as the main-course on thier own. No matter how you do it, it's delicious just the same. Enjoy, e "Mangia Bene" Sempre.

SAUCE or GRAVY ?

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