The NEW YORK CHRONICLES: April 2014

Sunday, April 20, 2014

ROCCO CARBONE

ROCCO'S IS CARBONE ?

ROCCO'S IS CARBONE !

The former Greenwich Village Old-Schhol Red-Sauce Italian Joint, Rocco's a beloved little neighborhood trattoria closed two years ago as most people know. Squeezed out by a greedy lanlord and the so-called Torrisi Boys; Mario Carbone, Rich Torrisi, and Jeff Zalaznick ... Some hard-core old-school Italians were really miffed and the final straw some said was when the ne-owners superimposed the name "Carbone" right over the Old Rocco Neon Sign .. They said the Torrisi Boys add "Insult to Injury" with that one, not to mention prices like $52 Veal Parmigiano and sky-high prices across the board on; cocktails, food, and wine ...

FRANK & AVA
"MANGIA BENE" !!!

Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner

"Looks Like Minestrone"

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Thursday, April 10, 2014

New York Italian

PATSY'S

"FRANK SINATRA 'S FAVORITE"

West 56th Street

NEW YORK, NY

Frank Sinatra & Ava Gardner

"MANGIA BENE"

RAO'S

East Harlem, New York

New York's Toughest Table

Cause "Frankie No" Says "NO" !!!!

JOHN'S PIZZERIA

Bleecker Street

Greenwich Village

NEW YORK

FAICCO'S

Manhattan's Best Pork Store

Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village

GABAGOOL !!!!

PIZZA

NEW YORK & AMERICA'S

BEST PIZZA

DiFar Pizza

Avenue J , Brooklyn, NY

The MAESTRO of PIZZA

Mr. Dom DeMarco

BAR PITTI

The # 1 Best Italian Trattoria

in NEW YORK

Greenwich Village

and

"CELEBRITY CENTRAL"

CARBONE

Formely Rocco's Restorante

For More Than 70 Years

In Greewnich Village

Now New York's Hottest New Restaurant

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NEW YORK'S BEST SUNDAY SAUCE

"GRAVY"

Recipes & Stories In SUNDAY SAUCE

by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Ingredients

For

SUNDAY SAUCE alla BELLINO

THE BELLINO FAMILY

1939

Philipo, Lucia, Tony, Josephina

Philipo & Josephina Bellino Were Both Born

In "Lecarra Freddi" SICILY

The Same Town as The SINATRA FAMILY

and CHARLES "LUCKY" LUCCIANO

BAR PITTI

NEW YORK'S # 1 BEST TRATTORIA

and

"CELEBRITY CENTRAL"

Greenwich Village, New York

A MEATBALL PARM SANDWICH

Read About Meatball Parm Mondays

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke 's

SUNDAY SAUCE

"When Italian-Americans Cook"

GINO'S

In Memeory of GINO'S
One of NY'S GREATEST

ITALIAN RESTAURANTS

EVER !!!!

CLEMENZA (Richard Castellano)

SHOWS MICHAEL (Al Pacino)

HOW To MAKE

SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA

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VESUVIO

Prince Street

Soho, New York

photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

NEWPORT STEAKS

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Chianti, Barolo, Brunello

and

Newport Steaks

Greewnich Village

New York

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La TAVOLA

NEW YORK ITALIAN

CAFFE DANTE

NEW YORK'S BEST ESPRESSO

Greenwich Village New York

photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Ingredients

The NEGRONI

Cocktail

Daniel Bellino's House

photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

FLORENCE ITALIAN MEAT MARKET

Creators of The NEWPORT STEAK

GREENWICH VILLAGE, NEW YORK

Newport Steaks

From Florence Prime Meat Market

Greenwich Village

SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS

Recipe In SUNDAY SAUCE

CAFFE REGGIO

GREENWICH VILLAGE

NEW YORK

photo Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

NEW YORK ITALIAN

GREENWICH VILLAGE RESIDENT

MARIO BATALI

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For The WORLD'S BEST ITALIAN

SUNDAY SAUCE GRAVY

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For SUNDAY SAUCE

"GRAVY"

Italian Cookbook Author

Greenwich Village Native

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Making SAUCE

In Greenwich Village

Sirio Maccioni

Founder of Le Cirrque

and

Creator of "PASTA PRIMAVERA"

Recipe in SUNDAY SAUCE

SINATRA

"JUST BECAUSE"

MULBERRY STREET

LITTLE ITALY

New York

Monday, April 7, 2014

BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK "GOT ANY KAHLUA" ??? Colected Recipes of The Dude

THE BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK

GOT ANY KAHLUA?

A Book by Daniel Zwicke

GOT ANY KAHLUA?

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KEEF !!!

IT'S KEITH RICHARDS FAVORITE COOKBOOK

GOT ANY KAHLUA?

THE COLLECTED RECIPES of THGE DUDE

by Daniel Zwicke

SEE Why KEEF LOVES IT SO !!!

"ABIDE and GET YOURSELF A COPY"

"MY BOOKD IS AVAILABLE In PAPERBACK

and That NEW FANGLED THING KINDLE"

On AMAZON.com

PRES REEASE: The BIG LEBOWSKI COOKBOOK .. GOT ANY KAHLUA ?

For Immediate Release

New York

Big Lebowski Amazon Cook Book Launch

The Big Lebowski, one of the greatest cult movies of all time, has hit home with food lovers across America. Many of the "greatest hits" of America’s favourite foods are in the book. The recipes are mostly quick and easy to make, of course tasty and with the budget conscious in mind.

The best of the Big Lebowski scenes and characters are captured by imaginative recipe titles with funny twists, such as "Dude's Chocolate Kahlua Sauce," "Crazy Wings," and "Gooey Chop-Meat."

The Big Lebowsi and philosophy are always closely tied in, and this is not ignored by what may seem on the surface to be just another cookbook. But don't judge this book by its cover. This isn't just a book of easy Super Bowl recipes - it aims to make great food easy and cheap to make, so people can spend less time cooking and more time enjoying the food with their friends and loved ones.

"Got Any Kahlua - The Collected Recipes of The Dude" will be a big hit with Achievers everywhere (the name the cult movie's followers have adopted). Not just a recipe book, it involves the philosophy of The Dude and forms a small cookery course in itself - penned by New Yorke writer, Daniel Bellino Zwicke, a wine and restaurant professional for over 20 years.

The Big Lebowski movie was a phenomenon that shot Jeff Bridges to messiah status in 1998 and starred an eclectic mix of movie stars. It seems appropriate that such a mix of fun and flavoursome foods has been chosen to remind us of its greatness.

This recipe book is almost ghost written by The Dude himself, and Daniel describes the book: “Dude has collected a lifetime of wonderful recipes, like, Dudes Cowboy Chili, Gooey Chop Meat, Da Fino's Meatballs, and more. Dude will teach you how to make a tasty Taco, Burrito, Ramen, Tuna-Fish Sandwich or whatever your little Achiever Heart desires. Being The Dude, all these recipes are Easy, Economical, and of course Tasty! The Dude wouldn't have it any other way. And the Dude wants to help you and guide you along the way to a beautiful journey as you cook along with The Dude, you will always Abide!"

If the movie's nuances have escaped you in the past, you can stop wondering what is the Big Lebowski about, and start enjoying social gatherings without fuss whenever you have the guys around for the football game.

"Got Any Kahlua: Collected Recipes of The Dude" is available in both paperback and digital format on your local Amazon store now.

Contact: Daniel Zwicke

Email:

Phone: 212-***-****

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

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Thursday, April 3, 2014

Paintings Edward Hopper

EDWARD HOPPER

Study for "OFFICE at NICE'

Pencil on Paper

Edward Hopper painted American landscapes and cityscapes with a disturbing truth, expressing the world around him as a chilling, alienating, and often vacuous place. Everybody in a Hopper picture appears terribly alone. Hopper soon gained a widespread reputation as the artist who gave visual form to the loneliness and boredom of life in the big city. This was something new in art, perhaps an expression of the sense of human hopelessness that characterized the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Edward Hopper has something of the lonely gravity peculiar to Thomas Eakins, courageous fidelity to life as he feels it to be. He also shares Winslow Homer's power to recall the feel of things. For Hopper, this feel is insistently low-key and ruminative. He shows the modern world unflinchingly; even its gaieties are gently mournful, echoing the disillusionment that swept across the country after the start of the Great Depression in 1929. Cape Cod Evening(1939) should be idyllic, and in a way it is. The couple enjoy the evening sunshine outside their home, yet they are a couple only technically and the enjoyment is wholly passive as both are isolated and introspective in their reveries. Their house is closed to intimacy, the door firmly shut and the windows covered. The dog is the only alert creature, but even it turns away from the house. The thick, sinister trees tap on the window panes, but there will be no answer.

NIGHTHAWKS

HOPPER'S Most FAMOUS PAINTING

Paintings such as Nighthawks (1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures. But of this picture Hopper said: `I didn't see it as particularly lonely... Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.' Deliberately so or not, in his still, reserved, and blandly handled paintings Hopper often exerts a powerful psychological impact -- distantly akin to that made by the Metaphysical painter de Chirico; but while de Chirico's effect was obtained by making the unreal seem real, Hopper's was rooted in the presentation of the familiar and concrete.

PORTRAIT of NEW ORLEANS

"I NEVER WOULD of GUESSED IT"

Looks Like Somewhere in Middle America or Upstate New York

The Long Leg

Love This Painting

I Did a Small Copy of It Myself

That Hangs on My Parlor Wall

CHOP SUEY

NEW YORK and The $3.00 PBR

New York and the $3.00 PBR, Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer has been a God-Send to many New Yorkers. As you all know, the US Economy has been in the Shitter for the past 3-Half years or so.

Many people are out of work, and many who are working, are taking home Half-as-Much Money or more of what they used to make. People have had to buckle down and give up or curb many things they enjoyed previous to the current state of our economy, which is in almost a Depression Era State.

Yes, everybody says that we are not in a Depression, we're in a recession. Those are the Rich and Well-Off talking. To many, the state of our Union and their feelings are of Depression.

So, because of the Terrible State of our Economy you have given up eating out 3 times a week, you buy less clothes, spend less on Entertainment and any number of things and you haven't had a vacation in the past two years, maybe more. You given up a lot. We all have.

Now when it comes to socializing, going out for a few Beers or Cocktails with some friends, you've had to cut back on that too. But hey, you gotta draw a line somewhere, and everyone is entitled to a few drinks to unwind every now and then. But if you live in the Great City of New York this can be a costly undertaking, especially in this day, and of all times, to be having a Boom in The $14, Sixteen-Dollar-Or -More-Cocktail.W hat is a Poor Working Guy or Working Girl to do??? Well Boys and Girls, let's Thank God for that great thing of wonder and the Bars and establishments who so graciously and kindly serve it, The $3.00 PBR, That's right, a $3.oo Beer in The Land of The Over-Priced $16.00 Cocktail, Manhattan, New York, NY..... It's quite Sad, Greedy too.

Yes, Thank God and let's thank the Kind-Heart proprietors who serve $3.00 PBR'S or any Beer for just $3 or $4 in a New York Bar. You are doing you fellow man a public service and we thank you for that. Whoever you are, you are to be commended, and Shame-On-You, all those places that serve $14 PLUS Cocktails. "RIP-OFF" !!! Wish the masses would Boycott these places and patronize places like Blue & Gold Bar, 7B, and anyplace who has a heart. Bars that serve 3 and 4 Dollar Beers.

I just have to say, it's great to go to a place like Blue and Gold Bar on East 7th Street and know that you can have 3 or 4 Beers for just $12 to $16, accounting for a Buck a Pop for the Barkeep. Now that's pretty good. I have had the best times hanging at Blue & Gold with some friends. You sit at the Bar or get into a nice comfy booth, drink your Beers ($3 PBR'S), relax, listen to the Music, Chit Chat, and just enjoy, and it's not going to cost you The Shirt Off Your Back.

Yes, you can have 4 Beers, tip included for the price of 1 Rip-Off Drink at one of those Rip-Off Joints. And if you are Dumb enough to have four drinks in one of those places, guess what it's going to cost you? About $75 my friend.

Well, do the Math, and if you can afford $75 for only 4 drinks, God Bless You. And if you can't, you've got an alternative. Right, your local $3.00 PBR Joint. They're a God-Send.

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke