Stanley Tucci does not Know How to Make a Negroni – his recipe is all Wrong

STANLEY TUCCI Does Not Know How to Make a Proper NEGRONI

Yes it’s true. The person who has become popular for making Negroni Cocktails, more than anyone else in the history of mankind, does not even know how to make a proper Negroni. This is scariligous, and shows once again, how people jump on the Band Wagon, so to speak.

I was horrified when I was looking in Tucci’s latest book TASTE “My Life Through Food”and saw his recipe for the Negroni. In his recipe and instruction, Tucci cals for 50 milliliters of Gin, 25 millileters Campari, and 25 milliliters Sweet Vermouth with a slice of Orange. “oh my God, I can’t beleive it, totally wrong Stanley. The proportions are totally wrong and would make a “Horrible Negroni, and one I’d never ever want to drink.” and I’ve been drinking these bad boys Since 1985, a good 25 years before the Negroni Craze reached the American Shores.

How can you do it Stanley? Everyone who knows anything about a Negroni knows that you use equal parts of Campari, Gin, and Sweet Vermouth, and not and never ever twice as much Gin as Campari, you complete destroy the taste, by completely throwing the cocktail out of balance, a primary prerequisite to any good cocktail. How can you do it Stanley. Futhermore, it is beyond me that the press and general public have practicallymade Tucci the King of The Negroni, and the man doesn’t know how to make one. This is horrifying ! Really Stanley? How can you do it.

I’ve written extensively about the Negroni (in La Tavola), a good 10 years before the Negroni Craze even started. And as I’ve stated, I’ve been drinking these wonderful cocktails since the Summer of 1985, on my first trip to Italy. My first Negroni? I remember it well. It was at the Caffe Giacosa (formerly Caffe Cassoni), in FLorence. I went in and sat down. The waiter brought me a menu. I already knew what I wanted, as I had read of the Negroni in an Italian travel guide. I knew it was invented here, and that’s what I was going to get. So when the waiter came back, I said, ” Un Negroni pro favore.” The waiter nodded and, replied, “Prego.” A few minutes later he brought me my Negroni, with a few cocktail treats that they serve with cocktails in Italy. I took a sip. Yum, that’s pretty good I thought. That was the first. The first of many hundreds to come. Way back then, very few Americans drank Negroni’s. There were a few. The well traveled, but nothing like today. It really doesn’t make me that happy that everyone and their grandmother drinks them these days. It sort of takes away from their specialness a bit. But what are you going to do” That’s the way it is. They’re still tasty and refreshing to me. Tasty and refreshing? Well yes. Just don’t have Stanely Tucci make one for me. “Yuuk! Not very good. Not a Negrone (the way Stanely makes them).

Sorry Stanley, but you got it all wrong.

… Daniel Bellino “Z” ….

HOW to MAKE a PROPER NEGRONI

1 ounce Campari

1 ounce Sweet Vermouth

1 ounce Gin

ICE

1 fresh slice of Orange

Preparation :

Fill a rock glass with ice.

Add the Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin.

Stir.

Add a slice of Orange, and serve.

NOTE : You can change the proportions a little. Just don’t change them up too much, or you will throw the cocktail out of balance, and it will not taste like a Negroni, defeating the whole purpose of making the drink, as is the case with Mr. Tucci’s recipe. “It’s all wrong. Way too much Gin.”

If you wanted to stick around the prescribe recipe of equal parts of Campari, Sweet Vermouth, and Gin, to make a proper Negroni, you can put in just a little less Gin, but not too much less, or you’ll change the make-up too much.

Also, it is very acceptable to add a plash of Club Sod on top. Just not too much. Make sure it is just a small splash.

Bitters : Campari

Sweet Vermouth Brands : Cinzano, Marini & Rossi, Antica Carpano.

GIN : Any London Dry Gin. Most popular brands include : Beefeater, Bombay, Gordon’s, Tanqueray, and Hendrick’s.

Final Note : Negroni’s can be made straight-up, or on the rocks, however, 95% of the time, they are served on the rocks.

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CHIANTI THE ROLLING STONES And A PERFECT NEWPORT STEAK

The Perfect Newport Steak? What? I make it. Not everyone can. Number 1, you have to start with a Great Steak, a Newport Steak. A Steak not known to many. Well if you’re fortunate to live in New York’s Greenwich Village, you might know about them. Then again, you might not, cause just because you live in The Village, doesn’t mean you know of this little thing of wonder, The Newport Steak. The Newport Steak is a thing of wonder, especially if you love Steak but don’t want to shell out about $19.00 a piece or more to get one. That’s uncooked from the butcher, a nice Prime Sirloin Steak that is. Now a Newport Steak on the other hand will cost you about $7.50 on the average, or roughly 2 1/2 times less than a Sirloin, and you do not give up on taste or quality. It’s just as good. Maybe better.

Well, I picked up a couple the other night and cooked them for me and a friend. As usual, they came out perfectly. We had a Couple good bottles of wine as well, in a nice bottle of Villa Sesta Chianti and a fine Bordeaux. And if that wasn’t good enough, and don’t you think it should have been? We listened to The Rolling Stones while I cooked those “Tasty Steaks” some Roast Potatoes and Carrots. Those steaks, yes they were Perfect. Not many people can cook a Steak as Good as Me, “No Brag Just Fact.” Yes it’s Fact, I can cook a Steak Better than anyone of ever met or eaten a steak cooked by another, and that includes Steaks I’ve had at Sparks Steak House, Peter Luger and other places renowned for their steaks. If you knew me, you’d know I’m telling the truth. Ask anyone who has ever eaten a Steak that I’ve cook, “They tell you.”

Any way, yes the Steaks were perfect. My mouth is watering now just thinking about them. Dam, I tell you, Those Newport Steaks were “So Dam Good” they were practically “Orgasmic” I kid you not. Ask my Pal Chris, cousins Debbi or Tony, or my Buddies Raoul or Jimmy S, they’ll tell you. So we had The Perfect Steak, drank Chianti, and we listened to The World’s Greatest Rock Band of All-Time “The Rolling Stones.” What’s better that that I ask you, Chianti, Bordeaux, The Rolling Stones and perfect Newport Steaks? Not much I tell you!

Yes Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen, “Sometimes Life Can Be Blissful.” Yes It Can.

The ROLLING STONES “STICKY FINGERS”

CHIANTI A PERFECT NEWPORT STEAK and The ROLLING STONES Play as We Sip CHIANTI and EAT Perfectly Cooked Newport Steaks, “Greenwich Village’s Own STEAK” Yumm!!! “THAT’S GREENWICH VILLAGE ITALIAN”