GUMBO TALES of NEW ORLEANS

GREAT 

STORIES 

of NEW ORLEANS

One of the best books I've ever read on beloved adopted city of New Orleans .. Author Sara Roahen writes beautifully of her adopted city New Orleans  ... She writes with true love and affection for the city she moved to and grew to love ... Love the food, the people, the music, the restaurants, Poboy and Gumbo Shops, the culture and many wonderful rituals and traditons of this great city and its uniqueness in the World ..  I love this book. It's so good, I've read it 4 times over, as it helps me get a great fix of the New Orleans that I miss when not there ... Wish she would write another one, a follow up of this gem of a book, as there is more to be told, and the way Sara writes about New Orleans is absolutely beautifully ....

Daniel

PARIS BISTRO

TWO GREAT BOOKS 

By PATRICIA WELLS

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK !!!!

Am I Making Myself Clear? I LOVE This BOOK !

Get it, You'll Love it Too !

I First Bought This Book Way Back in 1986

When I Preparing for My First Trip to 

The City of Light .. Yes, PARIS

Needless to say I was quite excited and

wanted to have The Best Trip Possible.

I Bought This Book, and if I wasn't already

hopped up at the prospect of going to Paris

for 1 Glorious Week, this book,

The Food Lovers Guide to Paris

hopped ne up even more. Reading it I had

a feeling that I was already in Paris as well as getting anxious

to go eat at each and every Bistro I was reading about in

this wonderful book. Ms. Wells descriptions are incrediable. 

The job she does in living up to her title of the book is marvelous.

The book is beautifu and consise and it will have you yearning for

a tasty Bistor lunch or dinner, Cafe Latte at a famed Paris Cafe,

Foe Gras, and Pastries at the famed Paris Pastry Shops.

For Anyone Who is Seriously in to Food and Travel, if you

don't have this book in your Library, then something is wrong and you must

get a copy toots-sweet, "It's a Absolute Must."

Arm Travel, plan or relive memories of Paris,

you will Love It, Love It, Love it ...

Anthony Bourdain "Kitchen Confidential"

ANTHONY BOURDAIN

KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL

AMERICA'S FAVORITE FRENCH COOKBOOK

AMERICA'S ALL-TIME FAVORITE

FRENCH COOKBOOK

MASTERING The ART

of FRENCH COOKING

by

JULIA CHILD

SINATRA SPAGHETTI SAUCE RECIPE

FRANK & AVA

MANGIA BENE

FRANK SINATRA'S Favorite 

SPAGHETTI with TOMATO SAUCE

Ingredients:

5 Tablespoons olive oil

1 Small Onion, minced

1 28 oz. Can Whole Italian Plum Tomatoes

1/10 teaspoon Peperoncino (Red Pepper Flakes)

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon dry Basil

1/4 teaspoon dry Oregano

7 cloves Garlic, peeled an left whole

1 lb Imported Italian Spaghetti

Best Quality Pecorino Romano or Parmigiano Reggiano

Cooking Procedures:

1) Put Olive Oil and garlic cloves in a 3 quart or larger pot. Turn flame on to medium heat. Cook garlic for about four minutes until it is lightly browned. Remove garlic from pot and discard.

2) Put whole tomatoes in blender or food processor and blend for two minutes.

3) Add tomatoes and all remaining ingredients to pot. Bring the ingredients up to the boil, then lower flame until sauce is a a low gentle simmer. Cook for 25 minutes, stirring occasionally, scraping bottom of pot to keep sauce from burning.

4) After the sauce has been cooking for about 15 minutes, add Spaghetti to a separate pot of boiling salted water. Cook spaghetti according to directions on spaghetti package.

5) Drain the Spaghetti in a colander. Add spaghetti back to pot it cooked in. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil and mix. Add half the Tomato Sauce and mix.

6) Plate out spaghetti onto four plates. Add a little more tomato sauce on top of already dressed Spaghetti. Serve and pass the Grated Cheesse. Enjoy!

To LEarn How to Make Frank Sinatra's Favorite Spaghetti and Other Great Recipes, See "La TAVOLA" by Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

Available in PAPERBACK and KINDLE for Kindle,  Kindle for iPad, Kindle           for iPhone,  and KINDLE for ANDROID

SUNDAY SAUCE ITALIAN GRAVY

SUNDAY SAUCE

GRAVY !

"When a meal centered around a Sunday Sauce is announced, one can have visions of Blissful Ecstasy at thoughts of eating Pasta laden with Italian Sausages, Savory Meatballs, Beef Braciola, and succulent Pork Ribs. All this has been slowly simmered to culinary perfection. Yes just the thoughts can enrapture one into a Delightful Frenzy of the Most Blissful Feelings of smelling, seeing, and consuming all the ingredients, the Sausages, Meatballs and Gravy. Yes a Sunday Sauce can and does have such effects on one’s mind, body,  and soul. And, I do not want to sound prejudice, but this is pure fact, it is the Male of the Italian-American species who Love The Sunday Sauce in all its form, far more than the  female sex.  True! Meatballs too! And Italian-American men and boys Love and hold  oh-so-dare, their Meatballs, Sunday Sauce, Sausage & Peppers,  and Meatball Parm Sandwiches.

  The  Sunday  Sauce that  my mother  would make was with Meatballs and Beef Braciole. My memories are vivid watching my mother stuffing the Braciole with  garlic, parsley, Pecorino Romano, and Pignoli Nuts,  then  tying the bundles with  butchers cord to hold  the Braciole together as they slowly simmered in the Gravy.  Another fond memory was helping my mother roll and shape the Meatballs."

This passage has been excerpted from Daniel Bellino-Zwicke's upcoming new book 

SUNDAY SAUCE, which will be available in Paperback and Kindle on Amazon.com or at a bookstore near you. Sunday Sauce is due for November 2013 release. In the meantime see Daniel's other books (La TAVOLA,  Clemenza's Meatball Sunday Sauce) on Sunday Sauce, Italian-American Food and The Italian-American Experience in New York and America

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Essentials of Classic

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GREAT BOOK

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"La TAVOLA" One of The FINEST BOOKS

EVER WRITTEN on ITALIAN-AMERICAN FOOD

The ITALIAN-AMERICAN LIFESTYLE

IT'S PEOPLE, THE FOOD, THE KITCHEN

The TABLE

By Italian-American Native New Yorker

Daniel Bellino-Zwicke

The 

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