Author: Daniel Bellino

Daniel Bellinohttp://thedannyreportdotcom.wordpress.comHello All ! I'm Daniel Bellino "Z" Best Selling Italian Cookbook Author and Publisher of Positano The Amalfi Coast ... I have traveled the World extensively and have been going to: Napoli, Capri, Positano, and The Amalfi Coast of Italy Since 1985 ... I live and write in New York's Greenwich Village. I am the Best Selling author of such Books as : SUNDAY SAUCE , The RAGU BOLOGNESE COOKOOK, The FEAST of The 7 FISH, and the soon to be released POSITANO - Capri The Amalfi Coast , a book that tells stories of Napoli, Capri and Psoitano, and is part Cookbook of Regional Dishes of the area, as well as being a Guide Book of this region of Italy. I have been a Restaurant and Wine Professional for more than 30 Years, and I Created America's 1st Ever Venetian Wine Bar (Bacaro) in 1997, in Bar Cichetti, where I was the Head Chef / Wine Director and Managing Partner.

The King of Barbaresco

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke (R)

with

ITALO STUPINO “The KING of SANTA STEFANO”
BARBARESCO

WINEBOW PORTFOLIO TASTING 2014

New York, NY

CASTELLO di NEIVE BARBARESCO

From ITALO STUPINO

I drank trhough and tasted all of Italo’s phenominal Barbarescos as well as his; Dolcetto d’ Alba Basarin 2011,

Pinot Noir 2012, and Barbaresco Santa Stefano 2006 & 2009 … Italo is The King of Santa Stefano .. He has the only vineyard. He used to sell fruit to Bruno Giacosa, but the contract is up and Italo will be the only one in the World making Barbaresco Santa Stefano from now on. We drank the base Barbaresco Castello del Neive 2010 and the Barbaresco Santa Stefano 2009, both awesome, but the Santa Stefano had a slight edge of awesomeness. But not by much, both are great wines, perfectly balanced with fine fruit, and perfect examples of what a great Barbaresco should be. They are Textbook. It was great to see Italo again. He is the man! I just love that guy, and would rather drink his Barbaresco over anyone else’s. ANd this of course includes Angelo Gaja, who makes some great Barbaresco, but the prices are through the roof, and dollare for dollar I’d put Italo’s up against Gaja’s any-day-of-the week .. You can’t do any better … Although I must say, I really enjoyed Anjelo’s offerings last year when I tasted the wines at a tasting in New York with Anjelo and daughter Gaia ..

Daniel Bellino Z with Alessandro Mori of Il Maronetta Brunello

at The WORLD TRADE CENTER

New York, NY

Montcalm Wines Portfolio Tatsing

Alessandro tasted me on his latest vintages of his estates awesome Brunello ..

I really loved the 2008 Brunello Normale and the Brunello Reserva Madonna del Grazia 2008 was off the charts awesome .. The 2009 Brunello and Brunello Ros. Madonna del Grazia where awesome as well … Alessandro let me have a taste of the Brunello 2010, which was a bottle tasting and has not been released.. The 2010 Brunellos, by law cannot be released to January 2015 and this was a nice suprise advanced tasting of a 2010 Brunello .. Alessandro was beaming. He is very proud of the wine and he said the vintage is one of the best. “I wouldn’t disagree.”

ZENATO AMARONE

M ARIOLAS

with His Families

TURIGA

Vernaccia di
San Gimignano

Princessa Natalia Strozzi

SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA

SEGRETO ITALIANO, THE LATEST FEM DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE ..
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MONA LISA

Guicciardini-Strozzi are theoldest wine producers in Italy with their Cusona estate established in 994 AD ( no, we didn’t forget the 1). They produced the very first Vernaccia di San Gimignano in 1200 AD and this very wine was exalted by the likes of Dante,Michelangelo and Boccaccio not to mention drank byPopes.

It was only when Dan Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” started to cause so much hysteria, that two academics embarked on a quest to find out whom the Mona Lisa really was and if she had any living descendant. Inevitably their quest took them to knock at Cusona’s doors, where Prince Girolamo Strozzi opened up the family’s archives to reveal what was known in the family.

However, something else was soon to be discovered that even the Strozzis could not expect. During a former British Prime Minister’s private visit to their Cusona estate, the latter was being entertained with some of the family’s tales. One of such tales was that of a marriage in the sixteenth century between a female ancestor and an English aristocrat. It was at this point that the former British PM suddenly remembered to have come across this very fact in a book he once read.

He therefore suggested a further deepening of this lineage’ study at the London’s British Library. Here, documents certifying the marriage of Camilla Guicciardini-Strozzi to Sir Thomas Darcy were found along those certifying the birth of their five children. One of them, Frances, married into the Marlborough family eventually becoming one the ancestors of no less than Sir Winston Churchill himself.

Until now these news have not been divulged outside the academic circles to avoid being associated with the book and attract unnecessary media attention. It is now our very pleasure and privilege to bring this truly unique tale of history and culture linking Italy and Great Britain for wine and history lovers alike.

Secret Italian Recipes Daniel Bellino

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.

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Secret Recipes

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Vesuvio Bakery

VESUVIO BAKERY, Prince Street, NEW YORK, NY

Artwork
Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

A Sad Goodbye to Once Upon a Tart

ONCE UPON A TART

Soho / Greenwich Village, New York

It was sad goodbyes at The Tart today. That’s Once Upon a Tart in Soho (Greenwich Village) for those of you who may not know. After 23 years on Sullivan Street in what is technically known as Soho, but truly for those of us who really know, this charming little block of Sullivan Street between W. Houston & Prince Street will never be Soho, but The Village …

Anyway this is where Jerome Audureau opened a lovely little bakery / cafe some 23 years ago .. This was even before Starbucks was even a twinkle in its evil fathers eye, there were none. Well not in New York anyway. Back then, the only cafes for that matter were a few Italian Caffes in The Village (Dante, Reggio, & Borgia), a few in Little Italy, a couple in the East Village, one or two on the whole Upper East Side, and not a one cafe in the whole Upper West Side of

New York.

Jerome and his partner opened this wonderful little bakery Once Upon a Tart which over time became a second home to neighborhood people like me and others who could go for a nice morning cup of coffee, and a muffin or scone for breakfast, or at lunch for a sandwich, salad, soup, or one of the signature Sweet or Savory Tarts as the name implies. Yes the Tart was a wonderful haven for people like me and others in the neighborhood as well as a great little pit-stop for countless tourist roaming the streets of Soho in search of a quaint little cafe to sit and rest, have a coffee, Tart or little bite to eat.

I loved the Tart. It may sound cliche, but it isn’t when I say it was a second home and like family to me .. I’d go each and every morning for my morning coffee and a sweet hello and morning greeting from; Cleo, Anna, Kanae, Samena, and Emmit and a score of girls who worked there over the 23 years that I went there. That’s all I needed, my coffee, a greeting from Cleo and a seat at The Tart and I was as happy as can be. I was content with these simple little pleasures of life.

But now they have been taken away, and it truly saddens me. I actually broke down as I got all choked up and started shedding tears as I said goodbye to the girls, saying I’ll see you around as that’s the thing to say, but knowing full well that was the last time I met ever see their sweet faces again. Yes I cried, I get emotional that way. And then I composed myself, we talked a couple minutes more, I said goodbye again and then I left. I walked out of the door where Jerome was. I gave Jerome a hug to and thanked him for the 23 years he opened his doors to us and brought joy and naturalness in a business to our little neighborhood.

I said goodbyes and walked away, and as I walked up Sullivan Street I had such an awful feeling, the kind you get when you breakup with a great love of your life. A deeply sad, sick to your stomach, the kind I felt when the-love of-my life Iris split up with me, or the day my father died. I felt a great loss. This is how I feel today, I lost something great in my life, something I cherished and may never have or see again. It may sound sappy, I’m sorry but it’s true. Goodbye my dear and sweet friends; The Tart itself, Jerome, and especially, Cleo, Anna, Kanea , and Samena. Thank you girls. Thank you and goodbye.

My Sweet Friend Cleo

Me Jerome Chris & John

Once Upon a Tart August 24, 2104

The FAREWELL PARTY

August 24, 2014

Jerome Made Us Gigot

Roast Leg of Lamb

“It Was Yummy of Course”

POTHEADS

Just a Few of Jeromes

Many Wonderful Decorative Objects

Over The Years

Not Potheads !!!

JOHN DANNY CHRIS

The LAST DAY of THE TART

ONCE UPON A TART

NEW YORK

Book Review: SUNDAY SAUCE – When Italian-Americans Cook by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

‘Come here kid, lem-me show you something. You never know when you’re gonna have to cook for 20 guys some day.’ 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, Moma DiMaggio’s Gravy, Goodfellas Sauce alla Prigione, 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 of SUNDAY SAUCE ‘When Italian-Americans Cook’ Press Release SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke Sunday Sauce 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 …

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SUNDAY SAUCE Is # on AMAZON BEST SELLER LIST ITALIAN COOKBOOKS, Beating out Heavy Hitters like; MARIO BATALIA, Giada DeLaurentis, and Lidia Bastianich .. SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino Zwicke is filled with stories and recipes of Italian-America, with Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy as the Centerpiece .. Learn How to Make SUNDAY SAUCE alla CLEMENZA, Momma DiMaggio’s Sunday Gravy, and Spaghetti Meatballs alla SINATRA …

Greenwich Village Best Place To Watch World Cup Soccer

SUPER MARIO

MARIO BALOTELLI

ITALAIN NATIONAL TEAM

AZZURI

SUPER MARIO BALOTELLI

with

SUPER MARIO ITALIAN FANS

CAFFE DANTE “GREENWICH VILLAGE” NEW YORK For WORLD CUP SOCCER 2014

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

BISTRO FELIX

Legendary DIEGO MARADONA

ARGENTINA

CLIKC HERE !

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Greenwich Village Italian Gravy Recipe

LEARN HOW TO MAKE SUNDAY SAUCE

alla CLEMENZA

ITALIAN GRAVY

CLICK HERE !

1. GET A COPY of SUNDAY SAUCE

WHEN ITALIAN AMERICANS COOK

by DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

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“THAT’S STEP 1 .. FINITO !!!”

2. GO To YOUR LOCAL PORK STORE and or GROCERY STORE

For SAUSAGES, Ground Beef, Veal, Pork, etc., BRACIOLE,

OOLIVE OIL, TOMATOES, PASTA, etc..

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3. ASSEMBLE INGREDIENTS, POTS and EVERYTHING

YOU NEED To MAKE The “SAUCE”

4. SAUTE GARLIC & MINCED ONIONS in OLIVE In

A LARGE POT. ADD TOMATOES.

5. BROWN BRACIOLE, THEN ADD To POT With TOMATOES ..

6. IF USING PORK RIBS or PORK NECK, BROWN COMEPLETELY

THEN ADD TO POT With TOMATOES .. If NOT, SKIP THIS STEP.

7. LET SAUCE With THE MEATS (Except MEATBALLS)

SIMMER At VERY LOW HEAT For 1 HOUR.

8. BROWN SAUSAGES THEN ADD To SAUCE.

CONTINUE SIMMERING.

9. AFTER YOU ADD The SAUSAGES TO SAUCE, MAKE THE MEATBALLS

by MIXING GROUND BEEF, PORK & VEAL with SALT, PEPPER, GARLIC,

FRESH PARSLEY, and GRATED CHEESE. FORM INTO MEATBALLS.

10. PLACE MEATBALLS in a LIGHTLY OIL PAN and SLOWLY COOK in A

350 DEGREE OVEN For 15 MINUTES.

11. REMOVE MEATBALLS FROM OVEN and PLACE in POT

With SAUCE. The SAUCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SLOWLY COOKING

With THE BRACIOLE and OTHER MEATS For 2 1/2 HOURS by Now.

YOU Will JUST COOK The MEATBALLS in THE SAUCE For 15

MINUTES on VERY LOW HEAT. BE CAREFUL WHEN
STIRRING NOT To BREAK MEATBALLS.

WHEN THE MEATBALLS HAVE COOKED In THE SAUCE

FOR 15 MINUTES, The “SAUCE” IS DONE.

12. COOK RIGATONI or WHCICHEVER

MACCHERONI YOU LIKE and SERVE

WITH THe “GRAVY”

PASS GRATED CHEESE

and

BUON APPETITO !!!

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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/