Monday, June 23, 2014

TEAM USA SOCCER at CAFFE DANTE




DEMPSEY SCORES GOAL With STOMACH



CLINT DEMPSEY
SCORES GOAL Off HIS STOMACH
Off Great Pass From GRAHM ZUSI
To Give TEAM USA a 2 to 1 LEAD
Agains TEAM PORTUGAL
In WORLD CUP Action in BRAZIL

SOME 10 Minutes Later
Silvestre Varella would Score a Goal
From a superb pass from Porutgese Super Star
Christiano Ronaldo to Tie Team USA
with Only 16 Seconds to Play ..

The Goal was devastating to U.S. Fans
Who It Seemed They Had a Win in The Hand
But it Turned Out to Be, as they say,
"IN THE BUSH" and Not In Hand
As PORTUGAL TIED Team USA

A WIN Would HAVE Put The USA into The NEXT ROUND
of PLAY AUTOMATICALLY
NOW We Must EITHER WIN or TIE GERMANY on Thursday
to Advance, a Feat Easy Said Than Done Against a Tough Team like Germany.

As with Yesterdays Game Against Portugal, Thursdays Game Should Be Quite Exciting
and will Bring Out Millions of U.S. Fans watching at Home and at Bars all aorund
the Country and The WORLD.

As usual, as in the past 20 Years, I watched the game at Caffe Dante in
New York's Greenwich Village ...  Caffe Dante owned by Mr. Mario Flotta from Avellino 
(Near Naples) Italy is a huge Futbol (Soccer) fan whose # 1 Team is The Azzurri (Team Blue) of ITALY .. I watched Italy lose to Costa Rica with Mario at Caffe Dante the other day .. Needless to say, Mario wasn't very happy at that one, and kept telling me, "I don't like this Game Danny." Of course not Mario, your team was losing ... My teams as some of you may know, are; # 1 Team USA, # 2 being ITALIAN-AMERICAN  I always root for Team Italia as long as they are not playiny USA .. And then I love Brazil as my # 3 team. Hey I've been down there a couple times on vacation and love the country, the people and of course the gorgeous women. Wow!

So as team USA Played Portuagal Sunday and Caffe Dante was packed to the gills, the air was filled with excitement. We were soon a bit deflated as Portugal scored a goal agains bad U.S. defense on this particular play. The rest of the first half was a bit uneventful with no more goals for the half. We had a few shots on goal, and Tim Howard didn't let another goal in in the half. I was drinking my Negroni and hanging with Mario and Raoul when Howard made one incrediable save that was quite exciting. There was a hard shot on goal that hit the post, a Portugese player got the rebound and took a shot on goal which Tim Howard miraculously deflected up and over the net. It was incrediable.
When the half ended, I ordered a LASAGAN, which Caffe Dante makes one of the best in the city, I love it. Just like my Aunt Helen and my ex-girlfriends Mom MRs. Lee used to make. "Real Tasty."

I told my friend Raoul, that's OK ( that we were down by 1 goal), the first half was their's, the second half will be ours. I was right! Sort of anyway. Jermaine Jones scored a sizzly goal to tie the game at 1 - 1 ... The game was tied and with just 10 minutes to play Grahm Zusi hit a gorgeous pass to Clint Dempsey who hit the Ball off his stomach and itno the Protugese net for a 2 to 1 U.S. lead .. Caffe Dante went Wild. It was pandimoneum with 100 excited U.S. Fans .. It seemed as though a Wine was in hand, but alass it was in the Bush, Varella hit a header into the US Net on a tremendous pass from Christiano Ronaldo and the win was gone, out of hand and into the bush. We had to settle for a Draw and hope for the best on Thursdays game against Germany. "Go Team USA" GO !!!!!



















Saturday, June 21, 2014

My Dads Cadillac & The SS UNITED STATES







1959 CADILLAC ELDORADO

Owned by David Warren Zwicke





Ny Dads Ship




The SS UNITED STATES










The SS UNITED STATES holds the Blue Riband for a passenger liner ship that crosses
The Atlantic Ocean in Record Speed. The SS United States broke the previous record held by Cunard Lines Queen Mary. The United States broke this record on July 3, 1952 on her Maiden Voyage of which my father (David Warren Zwicke) was a part of. The United States made the maiden voyage passing Ambrose Light at New York harbor to Bishop Rock off Cornwall, England in 3 Days 10 hours and 40 minutes at an average speed of 34.59 Knots or 40.96 Miles Per Hour. The SS United States still holds The Bule Riband and record to this day (June 21, 2014) and it likes like the record might never be broken and the Blue Rimand stays in the hands of this great AMerican ship which has been docked on the Delaware River on Pier 82 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since 1986 ...





The SS UNITED STATES 
in
NEW YORK HARBOR
United States Lines












Friday, June 20, 2014

Balotelli Nothing Italy Loss to Costa Rica



SUPER MARIO




 MARIO BALOTELLI

ITALAIN NATIONAL TEAM

AZZURI



SUPER MARIO BALOTELLI
with
SUPER MARIO ITALIAN FANS


WEST BROADWAY For THE WORLD CUP


Novecento
West Broadway
"They're For ARGENTINA HERE" !!!



There were many sad faces at Caffe Dante and all over Greenwich Village today as Italy led by Mario Balotelli aka "Super Mario" and Italian Teamates are unable to score even 1 goal in Team Itay's crushing defeat against Costa Rica  ... As with almost every Italian World Cup game in the past 20 years I watched the game at Caffe Dante on Mcdougald Street in New York's Greenwich Village, the longtime most famous Italian neighborhood in Manhattan.
Greenwich Village and Soho are hotbeds for watching World Cup action with many Eropeans and South Americans living in the area. Caffe Dante is the preferred local for watching Team Italy Games, while Novecento and Felix on West Braodway in Soho is thee # 1 hottest location to watch South American Futbol (Soccer) Games in New York .. Novecento owned by Argentinians who have a Novecento in Buenos Aires is # for games of team Argentina while the French Bistro across the street Felix is Groudn Zero for Team Brazil (Brasil) as the owners wife hails from Brazil .. It's quite alot of fun watching eithr Brazil or Argentina play at this spot on West Broadway near Broome Street in Soho, and I have long said it is one of the greatest locations in the World to watch World Cup Soccer matches .. It's quite exciting, and you will almost feel as if you were at the game live. If you can't be there, being on West Broadway at Felix or Novecento are the next best thing.
Yes, it was a let-down for Italian fans today. For me, Team Italy is my # 2 team after TEam USA, and I'll always root for Brazil as my team # 3 if Italy or USA are not playing, it's quite fun to have a few favorites (in a certain order) to root for.



IT'S TEAM BRAZIL
"BRASIL"
ALL THE WAY
at
BISTRO FELIX




Legendary DIEGO MARADONA
of
ARGENTINA












Saturday, June 7, 2014

OREO COOKIE


OREO








The OREO COOKIE was first made in 1912 by The National Biscuit Company, today known as Nabisco .. The OREO COOKIE was first manufactured at The National Biscuit Company at there factory on 9th Avenue and 15th Street in New York .. Today this building which was formerly The National Biscuit Company Factory is currently the Chelsea Market of New York named for its neighborhood, Chelsea ... The Oreo Cookie is loved by millions of Americans as well as people around the world. The OREO is America's # 1 selling Cookie ...













Isn't TIME

YOU GOT THAT

ROLEX ???





                                     EVERY MAN DESERVES To HAVE

                               At Least 1 GREAT WATCH !!!

Friday, June 6, 2014

Who Makes The Best SUNDAY SAUCE GRAVY


WHO MAKES The BEST SUNDAY SAUCE? 
BELLINO, BATALI, CLEMENZA, or SCORSESE?




                                                                CLEMENZA ???



CLEMENZA Teaches MICHAEL (Corleone)
HOW To MAKES SUNDAY SAUCE
aka GRAVY

For 20 GUYS



SCORSESE ???



CHARLIE SCORSESE
MAKES "SAUCE"

In GOODFELLAS

Directed by Charlie's Son MARTIN SCORSESE


With a Little Help From "BIG PAULIE"


PAUL SORVINO
"BIG PAULIE"
SLICES GARLIC RAZOR THIN
In
GOODFELLAS


BELLINO ???


THE BELLINO FAMILY



SUNDAY SAUCE



by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke



BATALI ???





HOW BOUT DINO ???


DEAN MARTIN
"DINO"

SHOWS JOHN WAYNE 
HOW To MAKE "SAUCE"



Who Makes Better SUNDAY SAUCE? Wow, that's some question, and of great improtance. Well 50,000 people make the Best Sunday Sauce. If you ask any Italian in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Boston, New Orleans, Manhattan, Da Bronx, anywhere in the great USA, they all tell you one or two of the same answers. Either, they'll say, "My Momma" or my "Grandma"
That's the way it is! Everyones Mother Grandma or Wife makes the best. They're all great, we're sure. How bout you? But how bout the very famous; Clemenza, maybe Michael 
(Corleone / Al Pacino), Charlie Scorsese, Mario Batali, or Daniel Bellino-Zwicke ???
You decide. It's all good. So make it, Eat It, and always "Mangia Bene"