Showing posts with label Italian AMERICAN FOOD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Italian AMERICAN FOOD. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Old School Italian New York

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FRANK SINATRA
 
Gone
 
CELEBRATING The 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of HIS BIRTH in 2015
 
Frank Sinatra Born 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey
 
Frank Spent a Lot of Time in New York
 
 
 
PATSY'S
 
Sinatra's Favorite Italian Restaurant
 
STILL HERE !  West 56th Street, New York, NY
 
ROCCO'S
 
THOMPSON STREET GREENWICH VILLAGE
 
GONE
 
Now It's CARBONE
Inside the former Rocco's
 
Now The Most Expensive Red Sauce Joint Around
 
It's CARBONE
JOHN'S of 12th STREET
 
Since 1908
 
STILL HERE !!!
 
 
 
 
GINO'S
 
Above and Below
 
GONE !!!
 
 
 
A Waiter and the Famous Zebra Wallpaper at GINO'S
 
No Longer With Us
 
 
 
 
Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner Dine at Patsy's
 
 
 
 
 
Rafetto's Past Shop, Greenwich Village New York
SINCE 1906
STILL GOING STRONG
 CAFFE REGGIO  
 
SINCE 1927
 
STILL GOING STRONG on MACDOUGAL STREET
 
GREENWICH VILLAGE NEW YORK
 
 
 
 
FERDINANDO'S SICILIAN SPECIALTIES
 
SINCE 1904
 
STILL With US on Union Street, Carroll gardens, Brooklyn, New York
 
"The Only Place left to get a good Vasteddi (Beef Spleen Sandwich) in NY
 
 
 
 
JOHN'S PIZZERIA
 
Bleecker Street greenwich Village, NEW YORK
 
SINCE 1927
 
STILL with US !!!!
 
 
 
 
 
Ferdinando's Brooklyn
 
Get The VASTEDDI SANDWICH
 
 
 
 
PIEMONTE RAVIOLI
 
SINCE 1920
 
Grand Street LITTLE IATALY,  NY NY
 
STILL with US !!!
 
 
 
 
 
 
Read About Italian-American New York
in Daniel Bellino's Best Selling SUNDAY SAUCE
Recipes and Stories of Italian-American New York
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SOPHIA
 
"JUST BECAUSE"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, September 14, 2012

La TAVOLA "A MUST READ"


 As I've said and written before, Daniel makes probably the finest Bolognese Sauce in the country, among other dishes. Daniel besides creating America's first ever Venetian Wine Bar, has now created and given America another great wonder, in his marvelous new book "La Tavola" Italian-American New Yorkers Adventures of The Table, a wonderful book with wondrous stories of Sunday Sauce, Meatball Parms, The Feast of The 7 Fish and much more. La Tavola is one of the finest books ever written on Italian-American Food and Cuisine, with some excellent wine info and stories as well.
    This book take the read on a journey through the Italian-American culinary world; the Food, Cooking, people, and time spent at the table with wonderful stories of all the great dishes, rituals, and the realm of Italian America.
    This book is a "Must Read" for anyone interested in Italian food and food in general.





Robert Roma

article from JOURNAL of ITALIAN FOOD WINE and TRAVEL

Thursday, February 16, 2012

ITALIAN AMERICAN ... WHAT IS IT?


There has long been a debate, fights, and Mud-Slinging in regards to Italian and Italian-American
food served in restaurants in New York and the rest of the U.S.. Culinary Snobs, people who "Think" they know what they are talking about and what not. I can set the record straight, being an
 Italian-American who has been eating Italian and Italian-American food for more than forty years, who has been professional Chef and someone who has eaten all over Italy on some 15 trips to the great peninsular. In addition to studying Italian Food in Italy for some 25 years, I am constantly reading all sorts of articles , cookbooks, and historical facts on this subject, in addition to being one of the countries foremost authorities on Italian Wine.
   Anyway, let me tell you. I myself was once a uninformed Food Snob who badmouthed and was slightly disdainful of unauthentic Italian food being served in restaurants all over the city. That's just in restaurants. Of course I Loved eating Sunday Sauce, Eggplant Parmigiano, and Meatballs that my aunts made at our frequent family get together s. And on the occasions that we weren't at one of the family's homes but in an Italian restaurant in Lodi or Garfield, I usually ordered Chicken  or Veal Parmigiano. Yes I loved it, but these dishes, for me at the time (1985-1993) had their place, and it was not in the kitchen or on the plates of any serious Italian Restaurant in Manhattan.
   Eventually as I learned more of the history of food in New York, Italy, and the World, I realized that there was actually a real true Italian-American Cuisine and that it was completely valid.
  Do you realize that if you think there is not a true valid Italian-American Cuisine, then you also must concede that there is No True French Cuisine, because the origins of what we now know as French food and Cuisine is really Italian. Yes, I said Italian. For the food and cuisine of French was quite primitive and did not begin to form into what we now know as French Food and French Cuisine until Caterina Medici of the Noble Florentine Family of the Medici married the King of France and brought her Florentine Chefs with her to the French Court way back in the 15th Century. So there. Many dishes which most people think of as French in origin, like Duck ala Orange, Bechamel, and others, are really Italian. "So there!"
   Anyway, back to Italian-American food. Food and cuisines are constantly changing and evolving. This is how Florentine Chefs of Italy, went to France with the newly crowned French Queen who was of the Italian Peninsular in one Katherine Medici  and taught the French how to cook. Thus Italians immigrating to the United States in the early 20th Century brought their ingredients and techniques from mother Italy to cook the dishes from their homeland, with some modifications do to financial issues (being poor) and the unavailability of certain ingredients, and started forming what would one day be known as Italian-American  food (Cuisine).




"to be Continued"


Daniel Bellino Zwicke









FRANK SINATRA
ONE of THE GREATEST
ITALIAN AMERICAN'S of ALL