First Stop NAPOLI
and
PIZZA !!!
la PIZZA
e PIZZAIOLO
la BELLA NAPOLI
Old Postcard of Naples
AMALFI COAST
RAVELLO
View From The Top
POSITANO
MINORI
The Amalfi Coast
aka
Costa di Amalfitana
VILLA MARIA
Lemon Grove Farm Agroturismo
in
Minori
This is Where I’ll Be Staying for Three Glorious Days
(Maybe More)
On The AMALFI COAST
One of The Most Beautiful Spots on Earth “Bar None”
This is The View From AGROTURISMO VILLA MARIA
in
MINORI, ITALY
This is One of The Many Gorgeous Views From The Property
Looking Down Onto the Lovely Town of Minori and Out On To The Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea
This is My Back Porch Terrace of My Room
at
VILLA MARIA
Lemon Trees at Villa Maria
On to SICILY
Taormina
The GREEK THEATER
at TAORMINA
with
Mt ETNA
Piazza del Duomo
TAORMINA SICILY
on to PALERMO
A View of PALERMO
Mondello
Mondello is a Lovely Beach on The Outskirts of Palermo
Then on To My Friends at Villa TASCA
Villa Tasca
VINEYARDS at VILLA TASCA
Me & Conti Ciuseppe Tasca
with a Bottle of Giuseppe’s Famed Rosso del Conti
On to My Grandparents Home Town
My Maternal Grandparents
PHILIPO & JOSEPHINA BELLINO
with My Mother LUCIA
&
UNCLE TONY
Lodi, New Jersey
about 1940
I Will Go to The City Hall in Lercara Friddi and get any pertinent records
of my Grandparenst Philipo & Josephine. I will also go to the church they were
baptized in as well as being married there ..
Note : Our family Name was Bellina, spelled with an “a” not an “o” but like
many immigrants passing through Ellis Island back at the turn of the Century (1900), the
correct spelling of my Grandparents was changed slightly from Bellina to Bellino. Since that was the spelling of their name on the very important document of them passing through Ellis Island, New York in 1904, it was the spelling they stuck with and used.
The Chairman of The Board
Francis Alber Sinatra
aka FRANK
aka
FRANK SINATRA
Ancestry of Lercara Friddi, (Sicilia) Italy
My Grandparents who came from Lercara Friddi, the same town as Frank Sinatra and
Lucky Luciano, immigrated to America and settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in Yorkville, and lived there for a few years before moving to the town of Lodi in New Jersey, which was at the time inhabited sole of Italian-American Immigrants, of which 90% of them were from Sicily …
My Grandfather Philipo was a Shoemaker in Lercara Friddi as was Frank Sinatra’s
grandfather. It’s most likely they knew each other being from a small town in the 1880’s, 90s, and early 1900 Hundreds .. We may even be related which I will try to find out at the city hall in Lercara Friddi. “Wouldn’t that be Cool?”
On to See My Friend FRANCISCO PLANETA
of
PLANETA WINES
PLANETA VINEYARDS
Sambuca, Sicily
CORLEONE
AL PACINO
aka
Michael Corleone
OFF to MARSALA
to Visit My Friends Jose & Antonio Rallo
at
Their Family Wine Estate DONNAFUGATA
View of MARSALA
SICILIA
ITALY
DONNAFUGATA
MARSALA, ITALY
Brother & Sister
JOSE & ANTONIO RALLO
DONNA FUGATA VINEYARDS
MARSALA
Me & My FRIENDS WINES
CAMPACIO, VENICA SAUVIGNON
DONNAFUGATA “MILLE UNA NOTTE”
BARBI BRUNELLO
PLANETA CERASUALO Di VITTORIA
SUNDAY SAUCE
by Daniel Bellino Z
GRANDMA BELLINO’S ITALIAN COOKBOOK
RECIPES From MY SICILIAN NONNA
by DANIEL BELLINO-ZWICKE
COMING JULY 2015
Recipes From Josephina Bellino Her Children & Grandchildren
GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN 