Sunday, February 25, 2024

Daniel Bellino Beats Stanley Tucci Best Sellers

BEST SELLING ITALIAN COOKBOOKS 




STANLEY TUCCI 

"TASTE"







# 10 BEST SELLER - PASTA COOKBOOKS







SUNDAY SAUCE # 23 BEST SELLER in ITALIAN COOKING




BELLINO BEATS OUT TUCCI !!!





BELLINO BEATS OUT TUCCI

BEST SELLING - ITALIAN COOKING - FOOD & WINE



SUNDAY SAUCE

alla BELLINO alla PACINO

BEST SELLER ITALIAN COOKBOOKS




READERS LOVE SUNDAY SAUCE 


Sunday Sauce is the Best Selling Italian Cookbook by Best Selling author Daniel Bellino Zwicke.
Daniel says he is quite proud of the fact that he is now ranked higher than famous actor / Italian Food Travel Personality Stanley Tucci. Also he has recently and over the years ranked high than Mario Batali, Lidia Bastianich, and Giada DeLaurentis as a Best Seller of Italian Cookbooks, though all of these authors are quite a bit more famous than Bellino. His star has been steadily rising.

Daniel is one of the America's leading experts of Italian Food & Wine and Culture. He is considered one of the foremost authorities of Italian Wine in New York (thus America as well).

Daniel Bellino is credited with creating "America's 1st Venetian Wine Bar" in 1997. Bellino says that he already knew a number of Italian Wine Producers (estate owners) before he opened Bar Cichetti, but once he opened the place, every Italian Wine Producers who came to town (NYC) wanted to meet him, and he became one of the leading ambassadors and proponents of Italian Wine in America, a fact that all the Italian Wine People (owners) know and appreciate all that Daniel has done for them over the years, Championing their Wines through buying and selling them at his restaurant, and as a leading Wine Director in New York, at such establishments as Barbetta Ristorante (greatest Italian Wine List in America), and Bar Cichetti, as Wine Director, Chef, and managing partner.





Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

In VERONA, ITALY

During Vinitaly






SUNDAY SAUCE

DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE






SUNDAY SAUCE

Daniel Bellino Zwicke



"Come here kid, lem-me show you something. You never know when you're gonna have to cook for 20 guys someday." Pete Clemenza says to Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. It's one of the most famed movie scenes in history, and of great importance to Italian-Americans. Clemenza is making "Gravy" aka Sunday Sauce, the Supreme Dish of Italian-America, and the dish that brings Italian Families together each and every Sunday. Learn How to Make Clemenza's Sunday Sauce, Meatballs, Pasta Fazool, Momma DiMaggio's Gravy, Goodfellas Sauce, and all of the great favorites of The Italian American Table. Cook Sinatra's Spaghetti & Meatballs, Italian Wedding Soup and more, and delight in the many stories and factual information written by Italian Food & Wine Writer Daniel Bellino Zwicke. This book is filled with Joy & Love, and you will get many years of both, reading, cooking and eating the dishes in SUNDAY SAUCE "When Italian-Americans Eat". 

Do you Love Goodfellas, The Godfather, and Italian Food? Of course you do. Learn How to make Clemenza's Brooklyn Mob War Sauce for 20 people someday. Remember that scene in Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo classic Film Trilogy of the Corone Family of Sicily and Brooklyn, New York. 

Recipes in Italian-American New York Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke's Best Selling Cookbook (2 Years Amazon Kindle) SUNDAY SAUCE include; Frank Sinatra Sunday Sauce, Dolly Sinatra's Spaghetti Meatballs, Joe DiMaggio 's mom's Sunday Gravy, and Charlie Scorsese making Sauce in Prison in Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS - starring; Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesce, and Ray Liotta making Veal & Peppers and Sunday Sauce. And by-the-way, Joe Pesci and Liotta are both Italians from New Jersey, so they know their stuff when it comes to Italian Food and all things Italian.








Also by BELLINO



POSITANO The AMALFI COAST

TRAVEL GUIDE - COOKBOOK

NAPLES CAPRI AMALFI COAST

ITALY





"TASTE"



TASTE

"My Life Through Food"

Stanley Tucci




"TASTE"


Stanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table, and now he takes us beyond the recipes and into the stories behind them.​

Taste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life, filled with anecdotes about growing up in Westchester, NY, preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night and Julie & Julia, falling in love over dinner, and teaming up with his wife to create conversation-starting meals for their children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad, five-star meals and burnt dishes, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.

Written with nostalgia and Stanley's signature wry humor, Taste is for readers of Bill Buford, Gabrielle Hamilton, and Ruth Reichl--and anyone who knows the power of a home-cooked meal.


















Thursday, February 22, 2024

Pope Greenwich Village Sandwich NYC Recipe

 




Mickey Rourke and Eric Roberts are coming out of Joe's Dairy in Greenwich Village
New York. In the movie The Pope of Greenwich Village this little Italian Cheese Store that
specializes in fresh homemade Mozzarella which is along with fresh made Italian Sausages precious commodities in the Italian-American Enclave. This real life Italian Cheese Shop was fictionalized as 
Jimmy The Cheeseman's Shop in the Pope of Greenwich Village which starred Mickey Rourke as Charlie Morant, and Eric Roberts as his cousin Paulie. Here we find Charlie and Paulie going into the cheese shop so Paulie can buy some fresh Mozzarella, Salami, and Prosciutto to make an Italian Sandwich. They then go next door to the real life Zampiere's Bakery which operated two shops in Greenwich Village for years, providing the local Italians with fresh baked Italian Bread and Pastries. Sadly these two wonderful establishments no longer exist, but thanks to this wonderful movie based on the book Pope of Greenwich Village by Vincent Patrick who does a great job capturing some real Greenwich Village Village character.





Paulie and Charlie going to Zampiere's Bakery to get a nice loaf of Italian Bread
for Paulie's gigantic sandwich.




Paulie and Charlie, tow neighborhood Italians chat in front of The Rectory
of Saint Anthony's of Padua Church on Sullivan Street.

Greenwich Village New York






Paulei making his Sandwich

Spring Street Park, corner of Spring and Mulberry Street

New York, NY




Paulie tells Charlie about the Race Horse he is partners with 2 of his Italian Friends
from the neighborhood.

Check out the old Italian Men sitting next to Paulie and Charlie, and Rocky's an old neighborhood
Italian Restaurant that sadly went out of business a few years ago.






Mickey Rourke






Want to Know How to Make and Italian Combo like Paulie?

Bedbug Eddie's Calamari and Steak Pizzaiola?

Lasagna?

Spaghetti and Meatballs?

Paulie's Mother's Manicotti?

Braciole?

Clam Sauce?

Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy and More?

The RECIPES are in SUNDAY SAUCE

by Daniel Bellino "Z"








PAULIE BOUGHT a RACE HORSE

And He Makes a SANDWICH





Geraldine Page with an Amazing Performance as Bunky's Mom
Mrs. Ritter ...

"My Walter was like a Bar of Iron and he didn't get it from his Father"




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Pope Greenwich Village - New York Scene Locations





Eric Roberts and Mickey Rourke

at TONY'S NUT HOUSE

The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE


176 MULBERRY STREET, Little Italy





CHARLIE Getting Dressed at his Apartment on CARMINE STREET

MICKEY ROURKE as PAULIE'S Cousin CHARLIE MORAN 








MICKEY ROURKE


"CHALOOTZ" !!!

in The STICKBALL Scene

Anthony Passamante Playground

Corner of 6th AVENUE and HOUSTON STREET

GREENWICH VILLAGE , NEW YORK





The Old JOE'S DAIRY , Sullivan Street

between Houston and Prince Street

is Where PAULIE Buys MOZZARELLA and SALAMI

to Make His ITALIAN SANDWICH







PAULIE and CHARLIE Leave The CHEESEMAN'S SHOP

JOE'S DAIRY , Sullivan Street







PAULIE Buys BREAD at ZAPPIERI'S BAKERY

PAULIE MAKES HIS SANDWICH


The sequence of events when Paulie makes his Italian

Sub Sandwich follows. 1) Paulie and Charlie go to the Old Joe's Dairy
where they make fresh MOZZARELLA every day. JOE'S DIARY is the real

name of the shop that's portrayed as JIMMY THE CHEESEMAN'S Shop

in The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE. Paulie buys some Gabagool 

(Capicola) Salami, and fresh Mozzarella Cheese. 2) Paulie and Charlie

go next door at the old ZAPPIERI BAKERY where Pauli buys a loaf of

ITALIAN BREAD (with Sesame Seeds) for his Sandwich. 

As PAULIE and CHARLIE leave Zappieri's, we see them walk up Sullivan

Street past SANIT ANTHONY'S of PADUA CHARCH, corner of

HOUSTON and SULLIVAN STREET. In the movie, we next find

Paulie and Charlie in a PARK on The corner of SPRING and MULBERRY.

PAULIE assembles his Huge Sandwich and tells Charlie about the RACE HORSE

he bought into with TOMMY BORTANDO and JIMMY THE CHEESE-MAN






JOE'S DAIRY , 156 Sullivan Street

PAULIE and CHARLIE Going to Get "MOZZARELLA"

Known in The Movie as JIMMY The CHEESEMAN'S SHOP





PAULIE'S Got The GABAGOOL

He's making his Sandwich and talking to CHARLI about
Artificial Insemination which he calls ARTIFICIAL INSPIRATION .

DiSALVIO PLAYGROUND , Spring and Mulberry Streets





Paulie Eats His Sandwich

ERIC ROBERTS and MICKEY ROURKE

Playground at the corner of  Spring and Mulberry

LOMBARDI'S PIZZA is a Few feet away on Spring Street

and the SPRING LOUNGE best known as The SHARK BAR

is right across the street on the South West Corner

of MULBERRY and SPRING

Besides SHOOTING Drinking Scenes at the former MARE CHIARE BAR

which is now know as The MULBERRY STREET BAR

ERIC ROBERTS and MICKEY ROURKE shot a scene in the SPRING LOUNGE





PAULIE and CHARLIE Walk across SPRING STREET

at the end of the Movie after PAULIE put LYE in BEDBUG

EDDIE'S ESPRESSO at the SOCIAL CLUB







The POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE Poster

at MARE CHIARO BAR

aka TONY'S HUT HOUSE







SUNDAY SAUCE

alla BELLINO alla PACINO










PAULIE'S SANDWICH









THE POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE

TRAILER







MARE CHIARO BAR

"TONY'S NUT HOUSE"

Now Called MULBERRY STREET BAR

176 Mulberry







ERIC ROBERTS at MARE CHIARO BAR






TONY .. The REAL Former Owner of MARE CHIARO BAR

aka "TONY'S NUT HOUSE


Now called THE Mulberry Street Bar

"PAILIE is Waiting for CHALOOTZ"









CHARLIE Going to Meet with The BED BUG







BED BUG EDDIES'S HEADQUARTERS

51 Spring Street





CHARLIE tells BED BUG EDDIE about the TAPE he has that can
put the BED BUG away for 20 .

EDDIE'S Reply : You're threatening me you Scumb-Bag. You're acting like a              Mammaluke (Idiot) . You come in here and you don't show the Club and Respect. People STEAL From Eddie Grant it makes for a TOTAL BREAKDOWN. No one Knows what's Right or Wrong. Next Thing You Know you Got MOOLANIANZS moving in. 






Watch Italian Cookbook Author

DANIEL BELLINO "Z" 's


POPE of GREENWICH VILLAGE GUIDED TOUR







PAULIE and CHARLIE in FRONT 

of PINO'S ITALIAN BUTCHER SHOP










The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK

SECRET RECIPE BOLOGNESE


by DANNY BOLOGNESE









FLIGHTS & HOTELS

WORLDWIDE



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Sunday, February 11, 2024

The Sinatra Cookbook




The TWIN ANCHORS RESTAURANT & TAVERN

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS





BBQ RIBS

TWIN ANCHORS

FRANK SINATRA'S FAVORITE PLACE for RIBS



TWIN ANCHORS BBQ RIBS




Frank Sinatra loved Chicago. He performed there more than any other city in America, including Las Vegas. Frank had his favorite hangouts, and places to eat in Chicago. He ate many times at Twin Anchors Restaurant & Tavern, and he loved the Barbecued Ribs.


One visit to the Twin Anchors in the 1970s was described like this. “Frank Sinatra entertained a large group of friends at The Twin Anchors last night. The guestlist included ; Jilly Rizzo, football great Sid Luckman, Frank’s girlfriend Barbara Marx, comedian Pat Henry, composer Don Costas, Joey Bishop, and agent Mickey Houston. Frank’s order was Ribs, and keep them coming, he said. One of Mr. Sinatra’s bodyguards was positioned by the pay phone, preventing patrons from making calls that would cause a mob scene. Mr. Sinatra was very gracious about signing autographs, and was extremely generous with tipping everyone working his table, giving them $100 each.”









TWIN ANCHORS BBQ RIBS



BBQ SAUCE RECIPE :


2 & ½ cups Tomato Ketchup

½ cup Dark Molasses

⅓ cup Brown Sugar

4 tablespoons Soy Sauce

8 tablespoons Cider or Red Wine Vinegar

2 shot glasses of Jack Daniels Whiskey (Frank’s Fave)

1 teaspoon Salt.  1 tablespoon ground Black Pepper

1 Navel Orange



Place all the ingredients except the orange in a stainless steel pot.


Grated the Orange Skin into the pot. Juice the Orange and add to the pot. Cook at low heat for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon.


Turn off heat and let cool.


The RIBS


2 Racks Baby Back Ribs

½ teaspoon Salt, 2 tablespoons Sweet Paprika

1 tablespoon Dry Oregano






Mix above spices together. Sprinkle evenly on both sides of the two racks of ribs.


Turn oven on to 375 degrees.


Place the Ribs in a large baking pan with 1 cup of water.


Cover pan with aluminum foil.


Place the Ribs in the oven. Turn the heat down to 300 degrees, and bake ribs until tender. About 2 ½ hours


Remove ribs from the oven. Take foil off of the pan and discard.


Turn the oven up to 400 degrees.


Brush the top of the ribs with BBQ Sauce. Bake the ribs for 10 to 12 minutes.


Remove from the oven. Let Ribs rest for 8 minutes before serving.


Serve with a Corn Bread, Bake Potato or Cottage Fries on the side, and Enjoy as Frank did whenever he was in Chicago at the famed Twin Anchors Tavern. 


“Buon Appetito” !!!









SUNDAY SAUCE

alla SINATRA alla BELLINO alla PACINO








FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA




The SINATRA COOKBOOK



NONNA BELLINO'S COOKBOOK

RECIPES From MY SICILIAN NONNA

The CLOSEST THING to a SINATRA COOKBOOK





GRANDMA BELLINO'S ITALIAN COOKBOOK


Giuseppina Salemi Bellino was born in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, the same town that Frank Sinatra's father Martino Severino Sinatra was born. The recipes in her cookbook Grandma Bellino's Cookbook are from Lercara Friddi and other parts of the island of Sicily (Sicilian Food). Frank Sinatra's wife Barbara Sinatra came out with a cookbook, called The SINATRA CELEBRITY COOKBOOK by Barbara Sinatra & Frank Sinatra. Sadly the book is awful and barely has anything to do with Italian Food. It's quite surprising that such a horrible cookbook was published in the name of Frank Sinatra, but it was. Whoever put this book together for the Sinatra's should be put in Jail ! "For Life," the book is absolutely Horrible, as most agree. Anyway, you have an alternative.




The SINATRA CELEBRITY COOKBOOK



The SINATRA CELEBRITY COOKBOOK

Barbara Frank Sinatra & Friends


"It's AMAZING HOW BAD This COOKBOOK IS" ???




IF YOU REALLY WANT to EAT LIKE SINATRA