"TONY WANTS a NONNA" !!!
An ITALIAN NONNA !!!
TONY Wants a NONNA !!!
NONNA MARIA
TONY Meets a NONNA
Minute 31:20
NONNA MARIA
NONNA'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK
Sunday, November 17, 2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Sinatra Sauce has Arrived Amazon
SINATRA SAUCE
by Daniel Bellino Z
Best Selling Italian Cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke has a new book. It's coming soon. November 16, 2024 is the Day. SINATRA SAUCE is Coming !!!
Sinatra Sauce is expected to be a huge hit! Many books have been written by the late great Franks Sinatra, but none quite like this. It's sure to excite Sinatra Fans (Millions) everywhere, especially those who Love Italian Food, and like to cook. Nothing has ever been done like this, and we feel it is a most wonderful idea, coming from New York Italian cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke.
Over the years, Mr. Bellino has proven to have his hands on the pulse of Italian Food, Italians, Italian Americans, and Italian American Culture, and what Italian Americans, and all Americans who Love Italian Food and cookbooks. Daniel has written such hits as The Ragu Bolognese Cookbook, Positano The Amalfi Coast Travel Guide / Cookbook, and his hugely popular book Sunday Sauce. People just love his books, and they are certain to love this one too. "We do."
More than 60 books have been written about Frank Sinatra over the years. This one should prove to be one of the publics favourites, and most loved. Get ready. Sinatra Sauce will be available on Amazon .com, November 16, 2024, just in time for Christmas. "Get it" !
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Tony Makes a Negroni Bourdain Recipe
"TONY Makes a NEGRONI"
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
TONY Makes a NEGRONI
"TONY'S NEGRONI"
Learn about the Negroni. Read about it, and learn how to make one. The story and recipe pf this now hugely popular Italian Cocktail was written about in bestselling cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke long before most Americans (even Tony, not until 2005) could have dreamt of the cocktail in their WIldest Dreams, Bellino started drinking Negroni's on his first trip to Italy in June of the year 1985, a good 30 years before the APerol Spritz and Negroni Craze hit the shores of America, Daniel was drinking this now famous cocktail at the Caffe Giacosa in Florence Italy while visiting a girl he went to high-school with, and it's been a Love Affair ever since. With the Negroni, not that particular friend of Daniel's. And exactly 10 years later while making an exploratory trip on the Wine Bars (Bacari) of Venice, Daniel discovered the now uber popular Aperol Spritz while having a nightcap one night before retiring to his hotel in Venice, he stopped into a little bar, he saw some people drinking something and he asked the bartender what it was. The bartender said, "an Aperol Spritz," Daniel said he'd take one, the bartender made it, and so in January of 1995 he discovered the Italian Cocktail a good 20 years before it caught on like Wildfire in America to become one of the most popular drinks of the day (from 2017 on). Yes Daniel has long been quite the Trendsetter, being one of the first along with some high-school friends to wear Bowling Shoes off of the Bowling Alley and on the street, Daniel and his friends were doing this way back in 1975. It is said that Daniel created the Two-Shirt-Look, whereby Daniel started wearing one short over the other at the same time starting back in 1997. Daniel says, "If only I could have Patented the Look, I would have made a Fortune. It's a Damn Shame."
LEARN HOW to MAKE a NEGRONI Recipe
by The CREATOR of BAR CICHETTI
and "The TWO SHIRT LOOK" ????
Daniel Bellino Zwicke
The NEGRONI
The Negroni? A question? A question to some? Most of America probably. Many so-called sophisticates have been drinking this “The Negroni” quite a bit in the past 4 years or so. The truly sophisticated, worldly folks have known about them far longer. Me? I’ve been drinking this great Italian-Cocktail for some 28 years now. Yes, I’ve been drinking Negroni’s ever since my first at a Bar in la Bella Roma back in the Summer of 1985. Rome, “The Eternal City” is where I had my first, on that marvelous first trip to Bella Italia. I was quite a young man, and that trip was completely magical, discovering real Italian “Italian Food” for the very first time, I had my first true Bolognese, Spaghetti Carbonara, Coda di Vacinara, Bucatini Amatriciana, Gelato, and a true Italian Espresso, “Oh Bliss!” Yes it was. I saw The Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo’s Moses at San Pietro en Vincole (Saint Peter in Chains), I saw the Coliseum, The Roman Forum, The Duomo in Florence, Venice and The Grand Canal, Positano, Capri, Napoli, and so much more. Yes the trip was magical. It was magical hanging out at a Bar in the Piazza Popolo drinking my first Campari, and that first of a thousand Negroni’s, or more. Many American’s are just discovering its charms, “me and the Negroni,” we go way back; in Rome, Venice, , Positano, Capri, Verona, Bologna, I’ve had Negroni’s all over. And many in New York in restaurants and bars all over Manhattan, and Staten Island where I drink some of the best Negroni’s I’ve ever had, certainly in New York, at my buddy Pat Parotta’s house in Staten Island.
Pat pours an awesome Negroni, better than any bartender in the city. He makes them with love and when I go to one of his wonderful little dinner parties, that’s the first thing I have. It’s tradition for us now. Leaving my house in Greenwich Village, I hop on the 1 Train and take it down to the Battery to the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. I hop on the ferry, ride across New York Harbor, passing the gorgeous Lady Liberty (The Statue of Liberty) along the way. I get off the ferry.
Pat picks me up at the terminal on the Staten Island side. We go to house, and I’m not through the door two minutes and he’s mixing up a nice one. A Negroni that is!
Well 2 that is, one for me, and a Negroni for himself. We drink great Italian Wine at those dinner parties, and some of Pat’s tasty food. But we always start it off with our ritualistic Negroni’s alla Patty “P” and you should too.
A Proper NEGRONI
THE NEGRONI
Basic Recipe:
.
.
1 ounce Campari
1 ounce Sweet Vermouth
1 ounce Gin
Ice
Orange
1. Fill a Rocks-Glass or Highball Glass with Ice.
2) Add Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin.
3) Stir ingredients. Garnish with a piece of Orange Peel or slice of Orange.
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Note: Orsen Wells after discovering the Negroni while writing a screenplay in Rome, Welles wrote in a correspondence back home that had discovered a delightful Italian Cocktail, “The Negroni.” Welles stated, “It is made of Bitter Campari which is good for the liver, and of Gin which is bad. The two balance each other out.”
The NEGRONI
"INGREDIENTS"
The BELLINO NEGRONI
For me, this is the Perfect Negroni. The basic Negroni recipe calls for 3 equal parts(1 oz.) each of Camapari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin in a glass filled with ice, and garnished with an Orange Peel. For the most perfectly balanced Negroni, I put in slightly less Campari (3/4 oz.), ¾ ounce of Gin, a little moreSweet Vermouth with 1 ¼ ounces, over Ice, add a tiny spalsh of Club Soda and Garnish with a good size piece of Orange. Voila! The Perfect Negroni. Enjoy!
THE NEGRONI is Excerpted From Daniel Bellino-Zwicke 's SUNDAY SAUCE
SUNDAY SAUCE
alla BELLINO alla PACINO
POSITANO The AMALFI COAST
TRAVEL GUIDE - COOKBOOK
VOTED BEST GUIDE to The COAST
The AMALFI COAST - ITALY
Daniel Bellino Zwicke
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Sinatra Sauce by Bellino Cookbook
SINATRA SAUCE
by Daniel Bellino Z
COMING SOON !!!
Best Selling Italian Cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke has a new book. It's coming soon. November 16, 2024 is the Day. SINATRA SAUCE is Coming !!!
Sinatra Sauce is expected to be a huge hit! Many books have been written by the late great Franks Sinatra, but none quite like this. It's sure to excite Sinatra Fans (Millions) everywhere, especially those who Love Italian Food, and like to cook. Nothing has ever been done like this, and we feel it is a most wonderful idea, coming from New York Italian cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke.
Over the years, Mr. Bellino has proven to have his hands on the pulse of Italian Food, Italians, Italian Americans, and Italian American Culture, and what Italian Americans, and all Americans who Love Italian Food and cookbooks. Daniel has written such hits as The Ragu Bolognese Cookbook, Positano The Amalfi Coast Travel Guide / Cookbook, and his hugely popular book Sunday Sauce. People just love his books, and they are certain to love this one too. "We do."
More than 60 books have been written about Frank Sinatra over the years. This one should prove to be one of the publics favourites, and most loved. Get ready. Sinatra Sauce will be available on Amazon .com, November 16, 2024, just in time for Christmas. "Get it" !
The FEAST of The 7 FISH
ITALIAN CHRISTMAS
CHRISTMAS is COMING
Are YOUR READY ?
The FEAST of The 7 FISH
ITALIAN CHRISTMAS
RECIPES & INSTRUCTIONS
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Bellino on Vino
Author / Italian Wine-Guy Daniel Bellino-Zwicke with Wines from
some of his Best Friends ; Francesca Planet, Gianni Venica, Roberto Gundler, Antonio Rallo,
and the Columbini Family of Fattoria Barbi, Daniel's favorite Brunello ..
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke? Who is he? He's a Best Selling Cookbook Author and one of New York's Top Big Dogs of Italian Wine, a former Chef of such restuauants as; Woods, Corrado, and Bar Cichetti ... Daniel was in the Hotel/Restaurant Management at New York Technical .. Besides being the chef at the previous named restaurants, Daniel worked with Michel Fitoussi at the famed Palace Restaurant in the late 80's as well as at the Odeon under the great Patrick Clarke.
Daniel got out of the kitchen in the late 90's to become The Maitre'd at the uber hot # 1 Celebrity Hot Spot Da Silvano where he took care of people like; Keith Richards, David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Uma Thurman, Richard Gere, Joe Pesci, Robert DeNiro, Calvin Klein, Nick Pileggi, Nora Effron, Graydon Carter, Gwyneth Palthrow, Madonna, Lucy Lui, and-on-and-on, the list is way to long to name them all.
Daniel took care o f the high-flying cliental of the Top People in The Fashion World, Record Business, Publishing, Movie Stars and Rock Stars and is known for his easy going ability of taking care of all the big stars needs in a casual attentive manor without being intrusive in any way, reasons for him being well known to The Movers & Shakers of these high profile business feilds.
Daniel had made quite a name for himself as the creator and Executive Chef / Wine Director and Managing Partner of Bar Cichetti, the 1st ever Venetian Wine Bar (Bacaro) in America, which was Daniel's proud creation. As Chef / Wine Director of Bar Cichetti, Daniel firmly established himself as one of New York and America's Top Italian Wine Guys .. He is personal friends with most of Italy's top wine producers, the likes of; Marchese Ferdinando Frescobaldi, Sebastiano Rosa winemaker of Sassicaia, Marchese Piero Antinori of Antinori Wines, Givanni Folnari of Nozzole, Gianlucca Grasso, Gianpaulo Venica, Cavalier Luigi Cappellini of Castel Verrazzano, and-on-an-on, just like all the Movie Stars & Rock Stars that Daniel knows, the list of Italian Wine Luminaries is even greater.
As we've already stated, Daniel left restaurant kitchens behind to become a noted Italian Wine Guy and Maitre'd who really knows how to take care of those high-end clientele. But not only them of course, there's everyone else, shall we call them the regular folk? Hey, they make up the bulk of any restaurant business, not the celebs, though celebrities help to draw in everyone else. Daniel will take good care of you as a number of his clients we have interviewed can tell. He friendly and quite personable and he really knows his stuff and has a passion for the food and wines of Italy that's almost impossible to duplicate. Frankly, Daniel is the best. He can tell you wonderful stories about the wine you are drinking, its history, the owners and people who make the wine (his Friends) and his trips to all these Wine Estates all over Italy. And his knowledge and passion for the food is equal to his knowledge of Italian Wine. Often you'll be drinking a bottle of Italian Wine that Daniel suggests and he'll pull out his iPhone and show you pictures of the people who own the estate and make the wine. One example would be Daniel's good friend Luigi Cappellino who owns Castel Verrazzano in Greve in Chianti (Tuscan) Italy. He'll show you pictures of him and his cousins Anthony & Joe at Verrazzano when Daniel took them their, they stayed on the property and ate breakfast and dinner in the castle, with the great wines of Verrazzano.
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
with Luigi Cappellini
of Castelo Verrazzano
After 5 years at DaSilvano, Daniel went on to become the Wine Director of Barbetta Restorante on West 46th Street in New York to head up the Greatest Italian Wine List in all of America. Daniel says, "the cellars are amazing." Places like Babbo and Del Post get more press for having great Italian Wine List, which they do, but Daniel says, "The Wine List of Babbo & Del Posto are awesome, but in comparison to Barbetta, they are Childs-Play." No exageration, merely fact Daniel says. And within that Wine List which is the Greatest Italian Wine List in all of America, is the Barolo / Barbaresco of which Daniel says is the greatest Barolo list in the World with it many Verticals of all the great Barolo Crus, like, Vietti Barolo Brunate and Lazarito, Cerretto Bricco Roche Bricco Roche, Marcarini Brunate, Michele Chiarlo Cerequio, Aldo Conterno Grand Bussia, Giacomo Conterno Monfortino and Francia, Mauro Veglio Rocche dell’Annunziata, Contratto Cerequio, Elio Grasso Ginestra and more ...
Giacomo Conterno Barolo Monfortino
Daniel said he was quite fortunate in his job as Wine Director of Barbetta for 5 years as he was able to taste and drinks so many of these great Barolo Crus of various vintage, as well as all the multi vintage; Barbaresco, Amarone, Brunello, Super Tuscans, Champagne, and the top California Cabernets and Meritage Blends such as Opus One and Insignia.
Daniel had been writing for years, mostly essays, articles, and short stories. He wrote his first book La TAVOLA while he was at Barbetta in 2006 .. He said that 85% of the book was written in about 6 weeks time (quite fast), however he edited, polished it up and worked on it for another year before trying to get it published, which took five years. Actually La Tavola was published in June of 2012, followed by The FEAST of The 7 FISH which is the top selling cookbook of its genre. Daniel published Got Any Kahlua? The Collected Recipes of The Dude in the Summer of 2013, followed by SUNDAY SAUCE which has been a # 1 Best Seller Italian Cookbooks on Amazon for 5 months ... Daniel published another # 1 Best Seller in June of 2014 with SEGRETO ITALIANO / Secret Italian Recipes & Favorite Dishes ..
Daniel says he's currently working on a book on Chianti one of his great passions, as well as another Italian Cookook and an American Cookbook, both yet to be named ..
Marchese Lamberto Frescobaldi
with
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
and Lamberto's Father
Marchese Leonardo Frescobaldi
Sebastiano Rosa (Winemaker of SASSICAIA) Daniel
and Giovanni Folnari of Nozzole
BOOKS by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE
SUNDAY SAUCE
alla BELLINO alla PACINO
The Feast of The 7 Fish
ITALIAN CHRISTMAS
La TAVOLA
ITALIAN-AMERICAN NEW YORKERS
ADVENTURES of The TABLE
"La TAVOLA"
MEMORIES of ITALIAN FOOD
ITALY & NEW YORK
Johns of East 12th Street - Red Sauce Joint
"JOHN'S" - Since 1908
JOHN'S of 12th STREET
EAST VILLAGE
NEW YORK NY
JOHN'S of 12th STREET
OLD SCHOOL ITALIAN RED SAUCE JOINT
Since 1908
DeROBERTI'S ITALIAN PASTRIES
DeRoberti's
The Turn of The CENTURY
About 1906
Casatiti
A SICILIAN PASTRY
Translation - Women's Breast
NONNA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK
RECIPES From MY SICILIAN NONNA
SUNDAY SAUCE
aka The GODFATHER COOKBOOK
CAFFE REGGIO
GREENWICH VILLAGE
NEW YORK
Monday, October 21, 2024
Bourdain Disappearing NewYork NYC
MANGNARO'S GROSSERIA ITALIANA
Was on 9th Avenue in New York's HELLS KITCHEN
Sadly, they CLOSED after 100 YEARS in Business
KEEN'S STEAKHOUSE
NEW YORK NY
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
VANISHING MANHATTAN
"OLD SCHOOL NEW YORK"
TONY with MICHAEL LOMANACO
At MAGNARARO'S ITALIANA
MANGANARO'S
Sadly, "They Are Gone"
MANGANARO'S GOSSERIA ITALIANA,
was on 9th Avenue in NEW YORK'S HELLS KITCHEN
The neighborhood where Sylvester Stallone was born, and where author Mario Puzzo wrote the Best Selling Novel "The Godfather" as well as the screenplay to the movie.
Manganaro's Grosseria Italiana, commonly referred to as Manganaro's, was an Italian market and deli on Ninth Avenue in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It opened in 1893 and operated for 119 years, helping to introduce the hero sandwich to Americans. The family closed the business and put the property up for sale in 2012.
The business was founded in 1893 by Ernest Petrucci as a wine and spirits store, Petrucci's Wines & Brandies, that also sold groceries. Its location at 488 Ninth Avenue near 37th Street was on a stretch of the avenue that remained lined with exotic food stores for decades. After the enactment of Prohibition in the U.S. in 1919, Petrucci's nephew James Manganaro, an immigrant from Naples, took over the store in the 1920s and changed the name; in 1927 he was able to buy the building. Manganaro may have invented the hero sandwich, and played a role in introducing it to Americans.
On his death in 1953, Manganaro's passed to his brother Louis and sister Nina Manganaro Dell'Orto and their spouses; in 1955, with a publicity agent's help, they invented the six-foot "Hero-Boy" sandwich, which was successful enough for one of Dell'Orto's four sons to go on the original version of the TV quiz show I've Got a Secret, and for the family to open a sandwich shop next door at 492–494 Ninth Avenue the following year, while continuing to operate a deli and lunch counter in the rear of the grocery store.
In 1962, Louis Manganaro retired and two of his four nephews took over the grocery store and the other two the sandwich shop, Manganaro's Hero-Boy, and the businesses were separated.
Sal Dell'Orto, who bought out his brother's half ownership of the grocery store, and James Dell'Orto, who bought out his brother's half ownership of the sandwich shop, fell out over rights to the "Manganaro's Hero-Boy" name, trademarked by the sandwich shop in 1969, and advertising for party sandwich telephone hotlines, which led to two separate court cases. The business' neon sign installed in the early 1930s, which became blinking in the 1960s, was turned off in 2000 so that Manganaro's Hero-Boy could not benefit from it.The grocery store was repeatedly found at fault over the hotline and was ordered to pay damages to the sandwich shop, and the financial drain plus waning popularity, some of it due to the declining neighborhood, led to the decision to sell the building and close. This was first announced early in 2011, but the building was withdrawn from the market; the business then closed in late February 2012.
Anthony Bourdain featured the store, on the episode title "Disappering Manhattan" on No Reservations TV Show.
AMERICA'S FAVOrITE
ITALIAN COOKBOOK
TONY TOO !!!
DeROBERTIS'S PASTICCERIA ITALIANA
1st Avenue NEW YORK NY
SINCE 1904
Photo - 1928
DeROBERTO'S PASTICCERIA ITALIANA
Year of Picture Unknown
LANZA'S
1st Avenue, New York NY
Lanza’s was an Italian restaurant in the East Village, Manhattan. It was opened in 1904 by Sicilian immigrant Michael Lanza in a tenement built in 1871. Lanza was rumored to have been a chef for Victor Emmanuel III of Italy. They closed in 2015. Eater reported it officially closed in 2017 after seizure by a marshal for non-payment of taxes. It is also said to have closed in 2016. The former restaurant's murals, stained glass, and sign were retained by Joe and Pat's, a pizzeria that opened at the location in 2018.
They were known to be a favorite of Lucky Luciano, Carmine “Lilo” Galante and Joseph “Socks” Lanza.
LANZA'S
SINCE 1904
The DINING ROOM
Sadly, LANZA'S Closed in 2017
"STILL GOING STRONG"
JOHN'S of 12th STREET
CUCINA ITALIANA
Since 1908
Thankfully, JOHN'S is open (2024) and going as strong as ever, and will be around for many more years to come.
Photo by Italian Cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke
At one point in his long restaurant career, author Daniel Bellino worked as a waiter at JOHN'S for 7 years.
At the time, he worked as a cook in Italian Restaurants in New York. He worked 2 jobs for 7 years, cooking at various restaurants full-time, while working as a waiter / bartender at John's for 3 nights a week.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
FOODIE JOURNAL
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
TRAVEL - FOODIE JOURNAL
With TONY'S BEST QUOTES
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