THERESE DREAMING
SELF PORTRAIT BALTHUS
FRANK SINATRA HAS a COLD
by Gay Talese
SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA
Recipe in “La TAVOLA” ITALIAN-AMERICAN NEW YORKERS ADVENTURES of THE TABLE
And Other Stories of “Frank” One Francis Albert Sinatra
Sunday Sauce
by Daniel Bellino Zwicke
SUNDAY SAUCE is The # 1 Bestselling Italian-Cookbook
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NEW YORK’S MOST SAUGHT AFTER RESTAURANTS Are ALL ITALIAN
1. DeGREZIA RESTORANTE … YES ! East 50th Street .. A Hidden Gem !
2. BAR PITTI .. NO ! 6th Ave near Houston .. Cleberity Central !
3. BABBO … NO ! Waverly Place, Greenwich Village …. Good, But Overrated …
4. CARBONE . NO ! Thompson St., Greenwich Village … Hottest Restaurant NEW YORK 2013
Sunday Sauce is excerpted from Daniel Bellino-Zwicke’s upcoming book “Sunday Sauce” Due for Release Novoember 2013 …
When a meal centered around a Sunday Sauce is announced, one can have visions of Blissful Ecstasy at thoughts of eating Pasta laden with Italian Sausages, Savory Meatballs, Beef Braciola, and succulent Pork Ribs. All this has been slowly simmered to culinary perfection. Yes just the thoughts can enrapture one into a Delightful Frenzy of the Most Blissful Feelings of smelling, seeing, and consuming all the ingredients, the Sausages, Meatballs and Gravy. Yes a Sunday Sauce can and does have such effects on one’s mind, body, and soul. And, I do not want to sound prejudice, but this is pure fact, it is the Male of the Italian-American species who Love The Sunday Sauce in all its form, far more than the female sex. True! Meatballs too! And Italian-American men and boys Love and hold oh-so-dare, their Meatballs, Sunday Sauce, Sausage & Peppers, and Meatball Parm Sandwiches.
The Sunday Sauce that my mother would make was with Meatballs and Beef Braciole. My memories are vivid watching my mother stuffing the Braciole with garlic, parsley, Pecorino Romano, and Pignoli Nuts, then tying the bundles with butchers cord to hold the Braciole together as they slowly simmered in the Gravy. Another fond memory was helping my mother roll and shape the Meatballs.
IT’S THE GREATEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD
Yes “The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread” !!! It’s Clemenza’s Meatball Sunday Sauce by Italian-American New York author Daniel B. Bellino … Clemenza’s Mob War Sunday Sauce Recipe from The GODFATHER, Henry’s Veal & Peppers, “Big Paulie” & CHARLIE’S (Charlie Scorsese) RECIPE for Dolly Scorsese’s Goodfellas Italian Meat Gravy, Mussels Marinara, Pasta Fazool, Johnnie Dio’s Steak alla Prigione, and much more. This Book is filled with Great Recipes and Wonderful Anecdotes of Mobsters, Italian Cooking, and the Italian-American Enclave. It’s a gem that’s a MUST HAVE for All Italian AMericans and those who want to eat like them, “Everyone I Guess.” This book is amazing and sure to be Italian Cookbook Classic .. Simple put, “:Just Love It.”
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CLEMENZA’S MEATBALL SUNDAY SAUCE RECIPE COOKBOOK
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TOTONNO’S One of America’s Best PIZZA, Brooklyn, NEW YORK
TripAdvisor makes a major Faux Pas when with their Top 10 Pizza Cities of U.S. The Faux Pas, TripAdvisor puts the “Undisputed Raining King of American Pizza 4th” and as if they are even more out of their minds rank San Diego # 1, Las Vegas # 2, Boston # 3, and The Champ New York # 4 … It doesn’t take much of a Genius to realize that this is one of the 21st Centuries biggest Media Blunders of all. So bad in fact, “It’s a Joke,” an absurdity that is beyond belief and has “Seriously Hurt TripAdvisor” and given them a major Credibility Issue. A business that is built on credibility and giving “Advise” as per their “Name,” TripAdvisor is in TROUBLE ..
Below: “THIS IS INSANITY” !!!
The Top 10 Cities for Pizza, as determined by TripAdvisor:
At issue here is not whether San Diego, Boston, and Las Vegas has better Pizza then New York and that they have bragging rights. “Hell No!” They don’t, anyone in their “Right-Mind” knows that no city can touch New York in their superiority as far as Pizza is concerned, New York is America’s undisputed Champ, we have some of the Best Pizza on Eart, and this include Italy. The only city that comes close to New York is New Haven, Connecticut, but even as great as New Haven and the towns pizza is, they are a distant second to New York, Chicago? Fougettabout IT! Chicago, that “Deep Dish Stuff” That’s NOT Pizza, it’s Deep Dish something, not Pizza. The balance is completely off to be called “real pizza.”
The issue here, with TripAdvisor’s Major Foul-Up is when you go to Tripadvisor for “Advise” on Hotels, Restaurants, and other travel related questions to determine what is the best, and for accurate descriptions, opinions, and ratings, “Is Tripadvisor accurrate and reliable? The answer is, “Sometimes,” just be careful and look to others like Yelp and articles and other info on places you are seeking accurate info and advice about. Don’t solely count on TripAdvisor. This “Pizza Debacle” is a major “blunder” and one that will take Tripadvisor a good long time to recover from.
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
Painting of TAJAGUE’S by artist Mary DeSilva
Taujague’s is one of New orleans Great Grand Old Restaurants, is one of the Oldest still operating restaurants in America an is second oldest in New Orleans only to Antoine’s .. Opened before the Civil War in 1856, Tufague’s has been feeding New Orlian’s and visitors (Millions) to The Cresent City ever since. Did you know that the Grasshopper Cocktail was “Invented” here? Know I didn’t think you did. Neither did the people at the Stand-Up Bar at Tujague’s did when I was in there on Lundi Day 2007 and ordered one. Everyone was curious as I drank mine. I told them it was invented here and everyone got one. We had a grand time there that day where I stopped in for a couple Grasshoppers after having an
awesome lunch of a Muffuletta at Central Grocery a few doors down on Decator Street. I then walked up the block to Cafe Du Monde for Beignets and Cafe au Lait before heading over to Tujague’s for the Grasshoppers and merriment at the famed Stand-Up Bar (No Seats) …
Drinking “GRASSHOPPERS” with A Friend I Met at TAJAGUE’S Stand-Up Bar
America’s Greatest Cafe? What and where is it? Where? First thoughts might run to the culinary capital of America, New York .. You’d be wrong. Though we have many fine cafes in New York and probably the city with more great cafes than most of America, when it comes to AMerica’s number 1, single best, undisputed champ, America’s Greatest Cafe, one stands alone, with whoever number two is, it’s a distant second, America’s Greatest Cafe is without a doubt Cafe Du Monde in The French Quarter of New Orleans .. Wow, was that a mouthful or what ..
Cafe du Monde is America’s best cafe on two fronts. Number one being that they serve this World’s Best Beignets (French Donuts “No Hole”), and the World’s Best Chicory Coffee “Cafe au Lait” … Second the ambiance and physical of the place is wonderful. Number 3, the customers, the people and amount of people that go there, and that just about everyone who goes there (about 99%) makes at least one stop at Cafe du Monde on their trip .. There are no statistics on it, but I’m pretty sure that more people have had coffee at Cafe du Monde than any other Cafe in the World, including cafes that are older .. Speaking of old as far as cafes or any restaurant or any business goes, Cafe du Monde has been around serving happy customers Cafe Lait and Beignets for more than 150 years .. They have been in continuous operation since 1862 … And there serve thousands of people each and every day 365 days a year, year-after-year … There is no restaurant that comes close in raw numbers … They serve about 35,000 people a week, or 1 Million + 638,000 people a year ..
But, the fact that Cafe Du Monde is thee number 1 place that everyone, whether tourists or locals has to go to … I love Napoleon House, Galatoire’s, and Tujague’s but great as they are, not everyone goes to them. “Everyone goes to Cafe Du Monde.” It’s a meeting place where you get a tasty cup of Cafe au Lait and 3 Beignets for a mere $4.50 … You will see everyone there, and you always have a great time. Cafe Du Monde, one of the World’s greatest and without a doubt AMerica’s Greatest Cafe ..
Beignets and Cafe au Lait
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