Thursday, March 27, 2025

Worlds Best Pizza




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PIZZA at Da MICHELE PIZZERIA  ... NAPOLI






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PIZZERIA Da MICHELE 




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Julia Roberts at Da Michele Pizzeria

Filming EAT PRAY LOVE




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My PIZZA FUNGHI at Da GAETANO .. NAPOLI





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Pizzeria Da Gaetano  ... Napoli

"ONE of M FAVORITES"
Pizzeria Da Gaetano is nt as well known as some more famous Pizzerias in Napoli, such as; Da Michle, Gino Sorbillo, Da Mateo, Antica Pizzeria Presidente and others, but it is every bit as good as any of the more famous joints. Try it if you get a chance and I'm sure you'll agree. Basta!





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Da Mateo

NAPOLI






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NEAPOLITAN BEAUTY

SOPHIA LOREN








POSITANO The AMALFI COAST

TRAVEL GUIDE - COOKBOOK














NEW YORK MAKES GREAT PIZZA TOO !!!


"SOME of THE WORLD'S BEST"
As a Matter of Fact



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The PIZZA MAESTRO Numero Uno .. DOM DeMARCO

DiFara Pizza, Brooklyn New York







"LUCALI"

Mark Iacono

CARROLL GARDENS, BROOKLYN

NEW YORK






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JOHN'S PIZZERIA  .. Greenwich Village, New York











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SUNDAY SAUCE

alla CLEMENZA

LEARN HOW to MAKE IT

and MANGIA BENE Sempre !!!!






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Monday, March 17, 2025

How to Make Ragu Bolognese Recipe

PASTA BOLOGNESE 

 

The WORLD'S TASTIEST DISH !!!



PASTA with RAGU BOLOGNESE





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GENARO CONTALDO Makes BOLOGNESE








CHEF SALVATORE Makes RAGU

alla BOLOGNESE







The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK



The WORLD'S TASTIEST DISH

PASTA with RAGU BOLOGNESE

SECRET RECIPE







3rd RECIPE



A TRUE RAGU

alla BOLOGNESE

by ANNA MARIA in BOLOGNA





















Sunday, March 16, 2025

Sinatra Sauce has Arrived

 



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" !














At GILLY'S

With DAUGHTERS TINA & NANCY SINATRA

And FREINDS

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Monday, March 10, 2025

Sinatra Spaghetti Meatballs Recipe



"FRANK"
 
 
 
 
 

 
Mrs. FRANK SINATRA RECIPE for SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS
WFBL FROM COOK BOOK of The STARS




 
RECIPE :
 
MEATBALLS alla SINATRA
 
 
INGREDIENTS for MEATBALLS :
 
1/2 Pound GROUND BEEF and 1/2 lb. Ground PORK
1 Clove GARLIC, peeled and Chopped Fine
1 tablespoon fresh ItalianParsley, chopped
1/2 teaspoon SALT
1 Teaspoon Ground BLACK PEPPER
1/2 cup OLIVE OIL
 
Mix all these ingredients together and shape into medium sized balls. 
 
Place all the oil except 4 tablespoons in a large pan and turn heat on to high. Brown the meatballs until all are lightly golden brown on all sides. When all the meatballs are browned, remove from pan and set aside to cool.
 
INGREDIENTS For SAUCE :
 
4 Tablespoons OLIVE OIL
1 small ONION, peeled and Chopped 1 clove GARLIC, peeled and chopped Fine
1 28 ounce can Crushed San Marzano Tomatoes
1 small can Tomato Paste
1/2 teaspoon Crushed RED PEPPER Flakes
1/2 teaspoon each of SALT and BLACK PEPPER
 
Put 4 tablespoons of OLIVE OIL and Red Pepper Flakes in a large frying pan, and cook ONIONS and GARLIC in pan on low heat for 6 minutes. 
 
Add crushed Tomatoes and Tomato Paste to pan and turn heat to high. Fill the empty large can with water and place in pot with tomatoes. Add salt and Black Pepper.
 
Turn heat up to high. Add the brown Meatballs. 
 
When the tomatoes start to bubble, lower the heat to a very low flame and let the sauce simmer with the Meatballs on low heat for 1 hour.
 
1 pound SPAGHETTI
Grated PARMIGIANO REGGIANO or GRANA PADANA CHEESE
 
Boil the Spaghetti in rapidly boiling salted water according to directions on package. When done, drain Spaghetti in a Colander.
 
Add Spaghetti back to the pot it cooked in. Add a Cup and a half of Tomato Sauce and a drizzle of OLIVE OIL to the Spaghetti and Mix. Plate the Spaghetti evenly onto 4 Plates. Add some sauce over the top of the Spaghetti. Place 2 Meatballs n each Plate and cover with a little more Sauce.
 
Serve to you guest with Grated Cheese on the Side. BUON APPETITO !






A LOT MORE SINATRA RECIPE !!!



SINATRA SAUCE

COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK

His FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES




 
 
 


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RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

The SINATRA FAMILY and Author DANIEL BELLINO "Z"
both Come From The Same Town in SICILY, LERCARA FRIDDI

So Does CHARLES "LUCK" LUCIANO


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Thursday, March 6, 2025

Polo Bar Review Reservations Hassle

 



The POLO BAR

NEW YORK








Is The POLO BAR WORTH The RESERVATIONS HASSLE

REVIEW by KRISTIN & WILL FULLER

They Weren't Crazy About The BURGER & HATED The STEAK

They DID LOVE The CORNED BEEF SANDWICH


They SAY POLO BAR is NOT WORTH The HASSLE of 
Trying to Geta RESERVATIONS or HIGH PRICES









SINATRA SAUCE 

LEARN to COOK FRANKS FAVORITE

ITALIAN FOOD RECIPES 












SISTERS SNACKING on The POLO BAR








MEAN GIRL LIKE IT !!!





Thursday, February 27, 2025

New York Oldest Restaurants

 



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





Inside KEEN'S

SINCE 1885




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.






SUNDAY SAUCE

AMERICA'S FAVORITE  ITALIAN COOKBOOK










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.









JOHN'S of 12th STREET

SINCE 1908

Get a FINE ART PRINT of JOHN'S









SINATRA SAUCE

COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK

His FAVOriTE ITALIAN Recipes








VENIERO'S PASTICCERIA

SINCE 1894





VENEIRO'S

One of FRANK SINATRA'S Favorites

FRANK LOVED The REGINELLA COOKIES














RAO'S

And, "A Guy who knows a Guy"

EAST HARLEM

SINCE 1896






PJ CLARKE'S

Established 1884

3rd Avenue at 55th Street

NEW YORK NY

Get a FINE ATY PRINT of PJ CLARKE'S











The WHITE HOUSE TAVERN

Where DYLAN THOMAS Had His LAST DRINK

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK

Get a FINE ART PRINT of The WHITE HORSE TAVERN







CARBONE

NOT One of The OLDEST RESTAURANTS NYC

But We LOVE The SIGN

And the Former OLD SCHOOL ITALIAN RESTAURANT THAT USED to Be HERE

ROCCO'S - OLD SCHOOL RED SAUCE JOINT

Get a FINE ART PRINT of "CARBONE" Sign











VENEIRO'S ITALIAN PASTRIES

Get a FINE ART PRINT of VENEIRO'S