Italian Bakeries New York

Cannolis

ITALIAN NEW YORK BAKERIES Past & Present

ITALIAN BREAD & PASTRIES

Cappuccino Espresso Cookies Cakes & More

“Mangia Bene” !!!

VESUVIO BREAD BAKERS

PRINCE STREET … Soho / GREENWICH VILLAGE New York

Note: Vesuvio’s Bakery has closed, however the Beautiful Piece of Italian New York History remains in its Landmark Status Storefront ..

Rocco’s Pastry Shop, Bleecker Street

GRENWICH VILLAGE

Cannolo

PARISI BAKERY, Little Italy, New York

Bread Bakers

COURT STREET PASTRY SHOP

Carroll gardesn Brooklyn

“THAT’S ITALIAN” !!!!!

MONTELEONE’S BAKERY & CAFE

Brooklyn … NEW YORK

Caputos Bake Shop, Carrol Gardens, BROOKLYN

Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy

SUNDAY SAUCE ITALIAN MEAT GRAVY

Sunday Sauce aka Gravy, the Supreme dish of The ITALIAN-AMERICAN TABLE .. Sunday Gravy, GRAVY, SUNDAY SAUCE, “LEARN HOW to MAKE SUNDAY SAUCE” …………………… SUNDAY SAUCE GRAVY alla CLEMENZA “GODFATHER STYLE” SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS BRACIOLE …. SUASAGE & PEPPERS, MEATBALL PARM SANDWICH .. GRANDMA’S SECRET SAUCE …

Ravello Minori Amalfi Coast

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VIEW From VILLA CIBRONE

View at VILLA CIBRONE Ravello, Italy

View of MINORI From VILLA MARIA AGROTURISMO

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Timballo of Zucchini Flowers .. Villa Maria, Minori

Lemon Grove, VILLA MARIA, Minori

Cooking Italian

GREAT HITS COOKBOOK

That’s POSITANO on The Cover

My Breakfast at Villa Maria

My Lunch at Villa Maria … Pacceri al Vongole

With Vincenzo’s Homemade WINE

Salumeria .. Minori, Italy

Spaghetti Vongole at Da Marino, Napoli ITALY

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SORRENTO

Fiat 500 …. Sorrento ITALY

VILLA CIBRONE … Ravello ITALY

SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Sinatra Scrambled Eggs

Frank Eating a Scrambled Egg Sandwich at home … Palm Springs California

Besides eating his Italian-American favorite foods, Frank loved eating a nice simple Scrambled Egg Sandwich on good old American white bread for breakfast and anytime during the day as a in-between meals snack prepared by his Valet George Jacobs ..

SCRAMBLED EGG SANDWICH alla SINATRA

Ingredients : 2 slices White Bread, 2 large Eggs, 2 tablespoons Milk, Butter, Salt & Black Pepper, 4 tablespoons Olive Oil

Place 2 tablespoons Olive Oil in a large non-stick frying pan and turn heat to medium low .. Add bread and cook until slightly brown. Turn bread over and cook to slightly brown. Remove from pan and set aside on the plate you will serve the sandwich.

Add eggs to a small bowl with a pinch each of Salt & Pepper and the Milk. Beat eggs with a fork until completely mixed …

Add remaining Olive Oil and Butter to pan and turn heat to medium.When the pan is heated and the butter starts to sizzle, add the eggs to pan and let cook while stirring for about 15 seconds. Turn heat to low and let the eggs cook without stirring for 45 seconds.

Flip the eggs over and let cook for 60 seconds on low heat. Turn heat off.

Place the cooked eggs on one piece of bread. Sprinkle a little salt & pepper over eggs. Top with second slice of bread and serve.

VEAL MILANESE “FRANK’S FAVORITE”

SUNDAY SAUCE

LEARN HOW to Make SINATRA’S Favorite VEAL MILANESE,

Dolly Sinatra’s Meatballs and Marinara and more .. In SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino

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BAKED ZITI with MEATBALLS

Like SINATRA, a SICILIAN FAVORITE

FRANK & AVA GARDNER

“MANGIA BENE”

Grandma Bellino’s Cookbook

SICILIAN Like FRANK

DOLLY SINATRA ‘S SUNDAY SAUCE

Recipe in SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino

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Gangster CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCCIANO was from LERCARA FRIDDI , SICILY

as Was FRANK SINATRA’S Father Marty

and Author Daniel Bellino

SOPHIA LOREN

“What a Beauty?”

Classic Frank

AL PACINO

Speaking of Great ITALIAN-AMERICANS

A Handsome Devil to Boot

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PATSY’S

56th Street .. New York, NY

FRANK’S FAVORITE RESTAURANT

Spaghetti Meatballs is Really Italian

SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS

“It’s Really Italian” !!!

For years now, many so called food Experts who thought they knew more than they actuall did wrote disdainfully of the famed Italian dish Spaghetti & Meatballs, saying “it was not authentic Italian food.” Well, “oh Contraire.” Guess what? Spaghetti & Meatballs is Italian. Or should I say Pasta & Metaballs. Yes, pasta with meatballs is a dish eaten quite often in southern Italy and the regions of Puglia, Sicily, and Abruuzo, a native dish is Pasta, (usually short Maccheroni) dressed with Meatballs as a special treat .. The names pf these dishes are called Pasta Seduta, meaning Seated Pasta and Maccaroni Azzese .. Yes Pasta w/ Meatballs, “It’s really Italian.” I myself have written about this in my book SUNDAY SAUCE -When Italian-Americans Cook, where I stated at the time that I had hear of certain areas serving Meatballs along with their pasta. And even before I heard this I surmised that out of so many millions of poor Italians over the years it was most certain that in poor familys not wanting to wash more than 1 dish per person eating that momma would not serve pasta and meatballs in seperate courses but together on one plate of Pasta & Meatballs (Spagetti Meatballs). And so as stated before Pasta with Meatballs is an authentic dish served all over Southern Italy, it’s reall Italian Food and has names for it, again Pasta Seduta and Maccheroni Azzese .. So there, “In your face Food Snobs,” snubbing our beloved Spaghetti & Meatballs, no it’s not just Italian-American, which is not a bad thing, it’s really Real italian and the mystery and controversy is now setted, it’s Spaghetti & Meatballs, millions love it, and billions of plates have been served over the years. Why? People love it, as simple as that ..

LASAGNA CARNEVALE alla NPOLETANA Has Little Meatballs Inside

Mangia Bene !!!

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SUNDAY SAUCE

When Italian-Americans Cook

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The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKBOOK

by Danny Bolognese

Sophia !!!

Sophia Loren

“JUST BECAUSE” !!!

Gravy

SUNDAY SAUCE
by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

SUNDAY SAUCE “some Call It GRAVY” !!!!

Excerpted from SUNDAY SAUCE – When Italian-American Cook

Of all the fine traditions of the Italian-American enclave in the United State, the Sunday afternoon ritual of making and eating a Sunday Sauce, a.k.a. “Gravy” is Italian-America’s most Time-Honored of all. Mamma, Grandma (Nonna) will make her celebrated “Sunday Sauce” and all is glorious. Sunday Sauce? What is it? Well, first off, Sunday Sauce, or as some call it, Gravy or simply “Sauce,” is without question thee number-1 undisputed “Supreme Dish” of our great Italian-American Cuisine and the Italian-American enclave as a whole, “It doesn’t get any better than a Sunday Sauce.” Ok, now, to be more specific for those who may not know about Sunday Sauce, there are a number of variations on the theme. Most Sunday Sauces are made with Italian Sausages, Braciole, and Meatballs. Some people make their versions with; Beef or Pork Neck, while others make their Gravy (Sunday Sauce) with just Sausage and Meatballs, like Pete Clemenza, or the most popular version of; Sausages, Meatballs, and Braciole. Some may throw some Chicken Thighs or a Veal Shank into this mix. Sunday Sauces can be made with any combination of these aforementioned meats. The meats are slowly simmered for several hours in a “Sauce” made with tomatoes, minced onions, and garlic. I generally like to make my Sunday Sauce Gravy with Sausages, Meatballs, and Pork Ribs. Other times I’ll make it with Sausage, Meatballs, and Braciole. An old tradition in some families is that mother or Grandma would start the Sauce early on a Sunday morning, get all the ingredients in the pot and start the Gravy simmering away for a couple hours on top of the stove, then put it in the oven for a couple hours while everyone goes to Church. When you get back home, the Sauce would be ready, “ready to be devoured that is!”

Our family would usually start our Sunday meal with the most traditional Italian-American-Antipasto of roast peppers, Salami, Olives, Celery, and Provolone. After that, it’s on to the Main Event of Maccheroni and Sunday Sauce, a dish which is something so Blissfully and Pleasurably Sublime, that it is almost “Sinful.” Yes it is.

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-dear, their Meatballs, Sunday Sauce, Sausage & Peppers, and Meatball Parm Sandwiches.

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

FRANK

SIGNATURE That IS !!!!

MEATBALLS

“MANGIA BENE” !!!

Secret Italian Sauce

SECRET & RARE ITALIAN RECIPES ???

SEGRETO ITALIANO

SECRET RECIPES INSIDE !!!

SECRET RECIPES? CLICK HERE !

Secret & Rare Italian Recipes? Yes, Secret & Rare Italian Recipes, are the main premises of Italian Cookbook Author Daniel Bellino-Zwicke’s latest book SEGRETO ITALIAN, from Broadway Fifth Press, New York …

Daniel has fast become America’s Hot New Celebrity Chef Cookbook Author, with 4 Best Selling Cookbooks in Amazon.com Top 100 Cookbooks at this very moment ( September 14, 2014) … His book Sunday Sauce – When Italian-Americans Cook has been the # 1 Best Seller Italian Cookbooks for more than 5 months, and there is no sign of it relinquessing its # 1 Spot at The Top any time soon .. Daniel’s La TAVOLA – Italian-American New Yorkers Adventures of The Table has made its way back into the top 40, The FEAST of THE 7 FISH is in the Top 100 Best Sellers, and Segreto Italiano is # 7 on Amazon’s Best Seller List Italian Cookbooks on Kindle and the # 1 Hot New Best Seller for September 2014 Italian Cookbooks. Wow !!!

Not bad!

So, Segerto Italiano? Yes, the main themes of the book, of which there are 3 are; #1 First and foremost, The Secret Recipes, # 2 Rare Recipes, after all, many times you llok in a cookbook and you might see many things over and over again. You need something new, thus the rare recipes. And # 3, Favorite Italian Dishes, some of the most love and popular dishes of what we know as Italian-America.

Now, a little about the Secret Recipes was the the first spark that ignited Daniel’s mind and idea for this cookbook Segreto Italiano .. Daniel saide that he was just thinking (one day) about dinners he had had over the years at one of his favorite of all Italian Restaurants in New York, Gino’s up on Lexington Avenue, across the street fromt the world famous Bloomingdales’s department store … Sadly Gino’s had closed its doors a few years ago, due to high rent and high insurance and other cost to the union employees .. Expenses were too high and they decided to close their doors and shut the place down … Very sad. I wish they would have gotten a better ideas and raised all the prices of the entrees 2 or 3 dollars, drinks by $1.00 and a couple or few buck on each bottle of wine .. This probably would have cover the rent increase and other cost over the course of a month, and me and the many devoted fans of Gino’s would still have our beloved Ginot’s to go to. I’m quite certain that not one person would have complained about the prices being raised if it meant saving Gino’s .. Wel maybe a few?

GINO’S SECRET SAUCE

Inside Our Beloved and Sorely Missed GINO’S

A Waiter Chats Up a Table

NOTE The FAMED ZEBRA WALLPAPER

Gino’s was a wonderful little restaurant with many loyal regular customers, the likes of;

Gay Talese, Joe Dimaggio, and one Francis Albert Sinatra. There were many other celebrities and very well heeled customers. You had to loved the crowd at Gino’s …

Anyway, Daniel said he was remenising about Gino’s and meales he had with his cousin Joe, sisiter Barbara, brothers Michael and Jimmy and others. He said he used to go to Gino’s once or twice a month with cousin Joe who loved the joint as well, especially Gino’s famous and secret Salsa Segrete, pasta of your choice with Gino’s Secret Sauce, it was oh so yummy Daniel says … Daniel talks about the first time he and cousin Joe went there. The ordered a nice bottle of Chianti, some Baked Clams and Veal Milanese. In-between the Clams and the Veal they ordered a dish that intrigued them. A dish called Tagiolini con Salsa Segrete (Secret Sauce) .. The boys both love pasta, but none more so than cousin Joe who had to have a bowl of pasta (maccheroni) with every meal. So they ordered a bowl to split in-between the first and second courses .. Well, when it came out, they went nuts. They loved it. Of course they did, the sauce is awesome;y delicious … Daniel and Joe never had a meal at Gino’s without getting a bowl of Pasta with Salsa Segrete, and it was too long before Daniel figured out the Secret Ingredients and how to make it … The recipe is in the cookbook, Segreto Italiano and Daniel promised us not to print it. We obliged, so if you want to learn how to make Salsa Segret, Dannny’s Bolognese, Clemenza’s Mob War Sunday Sauce and a whole bunch of other Secret Recipes, rare dishes, and favorite Italian Food, you’re just gonna have to get yourself a copy of this fine book, Segreto Italiano, Secret Italian Recipes, stories and more .. We just Love it! We’re sure you will too.

by James Abruzzese

Available on AMAZON.com

Secret Recipes

CLICK HERE For SECRET RECIPES !

Segreto Italiano is FREE on KINDLE UNLIMITED

Ode to SUNDAY SAUCE

“ODE To THE GRAVY”

The rituals of cooking, serving, and eating Sunday Sauce is a time honored one. It
is a quite a beautiful thing, same as making a Mole in Mexico, or Cassoulet
in France. They are all wonderful things of beauty that delight mans every sensory perception; sight, smell, taste, and feel. First, you probably smell the “Sauce’s” heady aroma wafting through the air. The smell is so intoxicating,

it gets your juices flowing immediately.

Once you smell it, you want it, and can’t wait to sink you teeth into it.

Second you will see it in all its gloriousness. You will then eat, whereupon you taste and feel and experience one of Italian-America’s greatest pleasures, the Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy. A Sunday Sauce (Gravy) takes time and effort to make. It is made and served with Love. All these great dishes bring together friends and family, and for Italian-Americans, Sunday Sauce is King of all dishes.

If you utter the term Sunday Sauce to any number of millions of Italian-Americans, they will immediately start salivating at the simple mention of its name. The wheels start turning in their heads, with thoughts of how tasty it is, with its various components; the Meatballs, Sausages, Braciole, maybe Ribs, Beef Neck, or Pig Skin Braciole, as well as the Pasta, and the Gravy itself. They think aboutsitting at the table with friends, family, people they love. They’ll ponder the Antipasti, wondering what it might be; mixed Salumi, Baked Clams, Grilled Calamari? And with the meal, there will surely be Wine. Italian Wine, which might be a good Chianti or perhaps Montepulciano d’Abruzzo. With Uncle Frank and Uncle Tony, the wine was usually Carlo Rossi Paisano or Gallo Hearty Burgundy, two solid Italian-American Winemakers.

When thinking of a Sunday Sauce, you’ll think about the warmth in the air, of loved ones, Sinatra, Dino, and the Sunday Sauce itself. “It’s a beautiful thing!” If you’ve never done it, “Try it!” If you haven’t cooked one for some time, plan a get-together with friends and family, soon. Sunday Sauce, It brings people together, in a most delightful way. And as the Big Boys would say, “It’s a Beautiful Thing.”

Excerpt From Sunday Sauce in Daniel Bellino-Zwicke ‘s

SUNDAY SAUCE

“When Italian-Americans Cook”