Thursday, May 22, 2014

MAKE The FEAST of THE 7 FISH This CHRISTMAS








La Vigila "THE FEAST of The 7 FISH" The Southern Italian Ritual Christmas Eve Meal of Seven Fish, Representing The 7 Sacraments of 
The Roman Catholic Church .. This Meal is a Sacred Ritual of The South 
of Italy and Italian-American's in New York, New Jersey, and other Italian American enclaves across the country. And You'd be Surprised to know that is Mostly of The South of Italy and Italian-America and that Many Italians from Central Italy to The North have never heard of This Great Traditional Feast as it is Mainly of The South. Have You ever wanted to Make or Eat one, but Don't Know Where to Start? The Know-How is Mostly Passed Down in Families from One Generation to the Next and 
Not Much Has Been Written on This Great Subject. Not Until Now anyway with The Publication of This Book by Daniel Bellino Zwicke. You Will Find Everything You Need to Know to Partake, Make, and Eat this Most Important Meal of The Italian Calender Year , with The FEAST of 7 FISH.. 

The Book Contains Stories, Recipes and Instructions on How to Make This Great Feast, Your Very Own "FEAST of SEVEN FISHES" so Cook, Make, and Partake, Mangia Bene e "Buon Natale"







Wednesday, May 21, 2014

21 st CENTURY = SHITTY MUSIC

Ramble On !


 WHAT IS HAPPENING To THIS WORLD? THERE Is No MORE GOOD MUSIC THESE DAYS! ALMOST NO GOOD MUSIC (other than a few instances here-&-there)RECORDED For THE PAST 15 TEARS-Or-SO, "THE MUSIC SUCKS" !!!


  Ramble On, Song of the Week!!! Without-A-Doubt one of Rocks All-Time Rockingest Rock Songs Ever, "Ramble On." This song Rocks like you can't believe! back in the Day when there was an abundance of Great Music being made by Hundreds of Great Artists, The 60's and 70's !!! Can someone tell us why there is "Barely Any Good Music" being made at all these Days!!! Just a bunch of a lot of Crap! Probably because the younger generation has such awful taste? Or is it just an Abundance of Lackluster Performers, or a Combination of both? I doubt seriously if there will be more than a handful of Musical Artist from the last 15 years or so who will Stand The Test of Time and be Loved 40, 50, 60, and 70 years down the road as artist like, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, led Zepplin, Elvis, Dianna Ross, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Stevie Wonder and on and on are doing and will do. The music of this Day and Age is quite literally Crap. Someone please Kill Hip Hop the way you Killed Disco (which is Superior Music to Hip Hop Rap) so long ago. How much more of this Shit do we have to endure! Are there any Good Musical Artists out there at all? Please step forward and do your thing!!!


 Daniel Bellino Zwicke


  DUANe ALLMAN


 DUANE ALLMAN  ... One of The Greatest Gutarist of All-Time   




MARVIN GAYE
One of R&B'S GREATEST ARTIST
of
ALL TIME

"WHY CAN'T THEY MAKE MUSIC LIKE MARVIN MADE"
WHY Is THE MUSIC So SHITTY THESE DAYS" ?
WHY?????





The ROLLING STONES

Greatest ROCK-N-ROLL BAND
of
ALL TIME










THE RAT PACK

FRANK SAMMY & DEAN

DEAN MARTIN, SAMMY DAVIS Jr.
and
FRANK SINATRA

THREE of THE GREATEST PERFORMERS
of
ALL TIME


"THANK GOD WE HAVE THEIR RECORDINGS
and WE CAN LISTEN To THEM And OTHER GREAT
MUSICAL ARTISTS of The 1940s, 50s, 60s, & 70s

And We DON'T HAVE To LISTEN 
To ANY of THE CRAP
THEY MAKE THESE DAYS

"THANK YOU LORD" !!!










Tuesday, May 20, 2014

New York Coffee Breakfast





My Perfect Breakfast? Well, my Perfect Breakfast is a bit unusual. When I get up in the morning, I turn on my Radio (1010 WINS NEWS) on my way to the bathroom. I listen to the first News of the day. Go to the living room, turn on the TV and watch it for 20-30 minutes or so. It helps me wake up. After watching a bit of TV I go and take a shower, dry-off, then brush my teeth, still no breakfast. I get dressed, fill my bad with my Mac Book Pro, battery charger and what-not. 
   Now I'm getting ready for breakfast. I grab a Banana to eat along the way. Along the way to my local cafe where I will have Part II of my perfect breakfast. Part II ? A nice hot cup of American Coffee of course. Yes a good ol Cup of Joe and the greatest coffee of all, American Style .. Oh I know I'd get millions of complaints and disagreements on that one. Millions of French, Italians, and other Europeans would scoff, "Are You Kidding? American Coffee The Best?" Wel Yes! Yes for me and a couple hundred million Americans I'm sure .. The coffee at my local cafe is awesome. They buy their beans from New York's # 1 Best Coffee Roast, people who have been in business fro more than 100 years, not upstarts like Starbucks. Yes, No Starbucks like me, I'm "No Robot," not a "Follower" like most Americans. Starbucks? Way too commercial, and besides, I don't really like the taste. Starbucks has a sort of "Pissy" tatse to their coffee. I'm not trying to be funny or a Wiseguy here, I'm serious, Starbucks has a sort of acidic pissy kind of flavor to their Pikes Peak Coffee Roast. I noticed it a few years ago when because of the Wifi situation back then, I was going to Starbucks a bit here and there. I've never been a fan, but I do find them convenient at times. Anyway, dam, how'd I get on this subjects, this is not supposed to be about Starbucks, who in a way I sort of dispise.


                                                             Banana by Andy Warhol




   OK, back to my perfect breakfast. So I grab a Banana on my way out of the house. As I walk the 2 1/2 blocks to the cafe, I eat my banana. "No not that Banana you wiseguys!" I eat the Banana, the most perfect little package of fruti of all. Yes it comes in a beautiful lean yellow package that's just perfect. And inside, Bananas have numerous vitamisn and nutrients and is a great source of fiber that we all need for good digestive affects. Babanas contain a good amount of antioxidants such as lutein, Vitamin B 6, soem vitamin C, and of course it's one of the best sources of Potassium .. Yes a Banana is quite good for you. It's fairly tasty, inexpensive and easy to eat. So ther you go part one of my perfect breakfast.
    Part II, The PErfect Breakfast, my perfect breakfast. Part 2, yes, back to my coffee. The coffee roast by Porto Rico Coffee Roasters who have been in business in New York's Greenwich Village since 1907 .. Owned and operated by the Longo Family for more than 100 years. They buy green coffee beans and roast them all themselves into perfect Italian Espresso, Pete's Blend (1/3 French Roast 2/3 American Roast) and various different blends roast from coffee beans from around the World; Brazil, Columbia, Sumatra, Africa, and Cnetral America, Porto Rico is The Best.  I often wonder why anyone would ever want to buy bags of the super commercial bags of Starbucks Coffee at $12.95 a pound when they cun buy the Superior Artisanal Small Batch Roast Coffee of Porto Rico for 30% less money? It just doesn't make sense.
   So my perfect breakfas? I eat my perfect Banana on the way to the cafe. I get to the cafe and order a large coffee (Porto Rico) from the wonderfullu sweet conter-ladies at the cafe. I get my coffee, get my table, sit down and relax. Oh how I love it so. This wonderful morning ritual. I ate my banana, now I sit down at my favorite cafe, all comfy and cozy. I pull out my laptop, surf the net,  I write, I sip my coffee, I relax, I'm in Heaven. That's my most perfect Breakfast, it's a Banana, a Cup of Joe (good ol American Coffee), my Mac, and a perfectly wonderful neighborhood cafe. "Oh the simple pleasures of life!"



Daniel Bellino-Zwicke




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Thursday, May 15, 2014

MICKEY MANTLE 536 HOMERUNS



MICKEY MANTLE


Mickey Mantle
New York Yankee Great
Hall of Famer
TRIPLE CROWN WINNER
 Career Batting Average .298

536 HOMERUNS

2,415 Hits
RBI'S 1,509

7 WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIPS
20 TIME ALL-STAR
Major League Baseball All-Century Team





MICKEY MANTLE
WHEN BABSEBALL Was BASEBALL
And Not The MONEY GRABBING BUSINESS
IT IS TODAY !!
That's SAD !!!
The Most MICKEY MANTLE EVER MADE WAS $125,000 A YEAR
WHICH WAS GOOD MONEY BACK TEHN, BUT NOT INSANE
THERE ISN'T A BALLPLAYER TODAY WHO COULD SHINE MICKEY'S SHOES
IF MICKEY MANTLE WAS PLAYING TODAY, HE'D BE WORTH 50 MILLION DOLLARS
A YEAR IN COMPARISON To MICKEY'S GREAT SKILL And THE BA::PLAYERS of TODAY






1953 TOPPS BASEBALL CARD
MICKEY MANTLE

"A THING of BEAUTY







Friday, May 9, 2014

SUNDAY SAUCE SALE 99 CENTS




SUNDAY SAUCE
On SALE
Today Only  .99 CENTS
on
AMAZON KINDLE
Click Below

.99 CENTS

Today Only !!!


For immediate release
New York, NY  (Greenwich Village)

Mobster Recipe Book to Hit the Shelves


Daniel Bellino-Zwicke is not afraid to spill the beans on secret sauces in his new book, SUNDAY SAUCE  “When Italian-Americans Cook.” Fans of The Godfather will be pleased to know that of the several Italian-American dishes covered in the book, the Clemenza Sunday Sauce “Gravy” made famous by Al Pacino is included.
SUNDAY SAUCE: When Italian-Americans Cook is available now in paperback and on Kindle from the Amazon store.
With more than 25 years experience as a Chef and Wine Director in some of New York’s most renowned restaurants, including; Del Posto, Barbetta, Odeon, Corrado, Daniel Bellino-Zwicke has delighted foodies and gastronomic adventurers with the book. Many of the meals that make Italian-American so famous as a food genre within its own right are there: Sausage & Peppers, Pasta Fazool (Pasta & Bean Soup), Spaghetti & Meatballs, Meatball Parm Sandwiches, Sunday Sauce aka Gravy, Mussels Marinara, and many more.
If you have ever wondered How to make Clemenza's Sauce, you’ll find the secret here, alongside recipes for Sinatra's Meatball Sunday Sauce and Mamma DiMaggio’s Sunday Gravy (Joe DiMaggio’s Mother), as well as Goodfellas Veal & Peppers.
Daniel Bellino Zwicke lives and works in New York City where he has been a wine and restaurant professional for more than 25 years. The renowned creator of Bar Cichetti "America's First Venetian Wine Bar," Daniel worked hands-on as the chef, Wine Director
and managing-partner. Daniel has also authored “La TAVOLA, The Feast of the 7 Fish,” "Italian Christmas" and “Got Any Kahlua?” “The Collected Recipes of The Dude” and he is currently working on a new cookbook, yet to be named ... Daniel is one of America's foremost authorities on the subject of Italian Wine.

Sundays are very important in Italian-American culture. It’s a time when all the family comes together to celebrate over a meal. With recipes that have become synonymous with Italian-American with entertainers and movie stars in many an epic movie over the years, the recipes included in this book will make that Sunday even more memorable.

Name:  Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Website/Author page:  http://daniel-bellino-zwicke.com/

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Caffe Dante Re-Opens






NEW CAFFE DANTE
The EXTERIOR Is THE SAME











Owner
MARIO FLOTTA
at 
CAFFE DANTE

"Mario, Is CAFFE DANTE"

BASTA !!!!





READ ABOUT CAFFE DANTE
In 
DANIEL BELLINO-ZWICKE'S 
Book
"La TAVOLA"

DANIEL HAS BEEN A LONG TIME PATRON
of
CAFFE DANTE










Monday, May 5, 2014

Best $8 LASAGNA NEW YORK




LASAGNA
CAFFE DANTE

ONLY 8 BUCKS ???

Now That's a Bargain !!! Yes, a mere $8.00 in "This Day & Age" in New York ..
Caffe Dante's Lasagna is our most tradition Italian-American version of Lasagna .. Made with Lasagan Rigati Pasta, Tomato Sauce, Ricottta & Mozzarella, Caffe Dante's Lasagna "Hits The Spot" and is a absolute steal at just $8.00 ... 
You can also get Panini for $7.00, Pizza MArgarita $8.00, and Homemade Meatballs for just $6.00 ... Wow!!! Dante is going give the much higher priced Da Silvano and Bar Pitti Restaurants around the block "A Run FOr Their Money" and a run for the money of local patrons and tourists looking to get some good tasty and very affordable Italian Food in Greenwich Village, Caffe Dante "Just Can't Be Beat" Get it!




Daniel Bellino-Zwicke









CAFFE DANTE 
GREENWICH VILLAGE 
NEW YORK





Owner

MARIO FLOTTA
at
CAFFE DANTE