Author: Daniel Bellino

Hello 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.

Frank Sammy & Dean

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FRANK SAMMY & DEAN
 
“RAT PACK REUNION” 

After The Rat Pack disbanded 30 years ago, analysts have uncovered a coincidence! It is said that the reunion and formation of The Rat Pack was likened to ”going from funeral to flowers”.
To prove that the coincidence analysis is correct, let’s dig deeper into the issue: The meeting between the holy trio Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. was very coincidental, from which a spontaneous band was formed! Before that, all three of them fell into seemingly unsolvable entanglements, from personal life, career, to love. All were transformed and turned a new page.
Analysts discovered:
It was only after Ava Gardner shoved him into a black sea of ​​despair that Frank was able to transform from a washed-up bobbysox warbler into the undisputed master of the boozy saloon ballad.
Dean’s acrimonious (and most thought career-ending) break with Jerry Lewis allowed Dean to step out of the shadow of playing straight-man and into the light of master entertainer of all trades.
The traffic accident that cost Sammy an eye lent him a fresh perspective on life (literally and figuratively) that gave him his final boost into super stardom. They’d all been to bombsville and they knew there was always something in the rubble worth taking with them.
So, not every event that happens is unlucky, at the end of suffering is the beginning of a new opportunity. Our life is the same, just look at the positive side, everything will become more positive and better. Wish everyone will have their own miracles!
 
 
 
 
 
 
FRANK SAMMY & DINO
“The RAT PACK”
The RAT PACK
SAMMY DAVIS Jr. – FRANK SINATRA
and DEAN MARTIN
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The SINATRA COOKBOOK
SINATRA SAUCE
COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK
His FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES
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FRANK SAMMY & DEAN
1988
DINO SAMMY & FRANK

 

Sinatra Spaghetti and Meatballs Recipe

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“FRANK”
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mrs. FRANK SINATRA RECIPE for SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS
WFBL FROM COOK BOOK of The STARS




 
RECIPE :
 
MEATBALLS alla SINATRA
 
 
INGREDIENTS for MEATBALLS :
 
1/2 Pound GROUND BEEF and 1/2 lb. Ground PORK
1 Clove GARLIC, peeled and Chopped Fine
1 tablespoon fresh ItalianParsley, chopped
1/2 teaspoon SALT
1 Teaspoon Ground BLACK PEPPER
1/2 cup OLIVE OIL
 
Mix all these ingredients together and shape into medium sized balls. 
 
Place all the oil except 4 tablespoons in a large pan and turn heat on to high. Brown the meatballs until all are lightly golden brown on all sides. When all the meatballs are browned, remove from pan and set aside to cool.
 
INGREDIENTS For SAUCE :
 
4 Tablespoons OLIVE OIL
1 small ONION, peeled and Chopped
1 clove GARLIC, peeled and chopped Fine
1 28 ounce can Crushed San Marzano Tomatoes
1 small can Tomato Paste
1/2 teaspoon Crushed RED PEPPER Flakes
1/2 teaspoon each of SALT and BLACK PEPPER
 
Put 4 tablespoons of OLIVE OIL and Red Pepper Flakes in a large frying pan, and cook ONIONS and GARLIC in pan on low heat for 6 minutes. 
 
Add crushed Tomatoes and Tomato Paste to pan and turn heat to high. Fill the empty large can with water and place in pot with tomatoes. Add salt and Black Pepper.
 
Turn heat up to high. Add the brown Meatballs. 
 
When the tomatoes start to bubble, lower the heat to a very low flame and let the sauce simmer with the Meatballs on low heat for 1 hour.
 
1 pound SPAGHETTI
Grated PARMIGIANO REGGIANO or GRANA PADANA CHEESE
 
Boil the Spaghetti in rapidly boiling salted water according to directions on package. When done, drain Spaghetti in a Colander.
 
Add Spaghetti back to the pot it cooked in. Add a Cup and a half of Tomato Sauce and a drizzle of OLIVE OIL to the Spaghetti and Mix. Plate the Spaghetti evenly onto 4 Plates. Add some sauce over the top of the Spaghetti. Place 2 Meatballs n each Plate and cover with a little more Sauce.
 
Serve to you guest with Grated Cheese on the Side. BUON APPETITO !






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RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA

The SINATRA FAMILY and Author DANIEL BELLINO “Z”
both Come From The Same Town in SICILY, LERCARA FRIDDI

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Frank & Yule – At Franks House – Palm Springs

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Frank & Yule

At FRANK’S HOUSE

PALM SPRINGS




“Yul Brynner and his wife Doris were close friends of Frank Sinatra. They were at the Compound so often that they had their own room, hooked onto the great hall and marked with a bronze nameplate . Sinatra taught Doris Brynner how to mix a martini.
Doris Brynner: “We were there constantly – always! Always a helicopter or Sinatra’s plane. And everything was orange: the sofas, the chairs, the carpets. It was Frank’s favorite color. It was a compound, so cozy and great. It was a super-modern house. There were bungalows for the guests,so everyone was on his own except when they didn’t want to be. So civilized. I sat by the piano-shaped pool while Yul and Frank played golf nonstop. Yul won. Or was it Frank? Fierce competition.
He loved Spaghetti & Meatballs. And Lasagna. And the booze. The boys boozed a bit, you see… They would tell stories, have a few drinks, play the piano and sing. Such fun people. Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Bill and Edie Goetz, us. Frank would sing duets with his records, Yul accompanying him on his guitar. Just another Saturday night.”







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Frank Sammy and Dean – Sinatra Davis and Dino Crocetti Martin

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FRANK SAMMY & DEAN

“RAT PACK REUNION” 

After The Rat Pack disbanded 30 years ago, analysts have uncovered a coincidence! It is said that the reunion and formation of The Rat Pack was likened to ”going from funeral to flowers”.
To prove that the coincidence analysis is correct, let’s dig deeper into the issue: The meeting between the holy trio Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. was very coincidental, from which a spontaneous band was formed! Before that, all three of them fell into seemingly unsolvable entanglements, from personal life, career, to love. All were transformed and turned a new page.
Analysts discovered:
It was only after Ava Gardner shoved him into a black sea of ​​despair that Frank was able to transform from a washed-up bobbysox warbler into the undisputed master of the boozy saloon ballad.
Dean’s acrimonious (and most thought career-ending) break with Jerry Lewis allowed Dean to step out of the shadow of playing straight-man and into the light of master entertainer of all trades.
The traffic accident that cost Sammy an eye lent him a fresh perspective on life (literally and figuratively) that gave him his final boost into super stardom. They’d all been to bombsville and they knew there was always something in the rubble worth taking with them.
So, not every event that happens is unlucky, at the end of suffering is the beginning of a new opportunity. Our life is the same, just look at the positive side, everything will become more positive and better. Wish everyone will have their own miracles!






FRANK SAMMY & DINO
“The RAT PACK”

The RAT PACK
SAMMY DAVIS Jr. – FRANK SINATRA
and DEAN MARTIN
The SINATRA COOKBOOK
SINATRA SAUCE
COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK
His FAVORITE ITALIAN RECIPES
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Frank Sinatra – Everything Happens to Me

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EVERYTHING HAPPENS to ME
 
 
 
This is one of my all-time favorite of the many great albums by The Chairman of The Board, Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra. My good friend Jimmy Starace gave this to me for a Birthday present one year and I’ve loved this wonderful Sinatra Album ever since. The album comprises songs that were Frank Sinatra’s best loved songs. His daughter Tina had the idea of producing album of songs that her father Frank Sinatra recorded that were his own personal favorites. Tina asked her father to pick these songs, and the album Everything Happens to Me was born. If you’ve never listed to the album and I’m sure you’ll agree that this collection of Mr. Sinatra singing his favorite songs is a beautiful and poignant one.
This is one of the most interesting and successful Frank Sinatra collections out there. Everything Happens to Me avoids the obvious hits and collects a number of the finest ballads and torch songs that Sinatra cut while at Reprise Records during the ’60s, ’70s, and early ’80s. It’s a regal collection that concentrates on the darker side of Sinatra‘s art. Instead of celebrating a cross section of the Voice’s career the way that so many compilations do, the album sounds like an elegy and has a strange cohesiveness considering that it’s drawn up from material that stretches over a 20-year period. Sinatra had recorded the title track numerous times throughout his career, but the previously unreleased version included here (complete with new lyrics) is his darkest and most battle-scarred interpretation. Even considering its lighter moments (“The Second Time Around” and the lyrically downbeat but wondrously swinging “Summer Wind”), this is a stark collection that almost plays like an original concept album about confronting disappointment, loneliness, and ultimately, mortality. That’s a lot to ask casual fans to embrace, but Everything Happens to Me ends up giving listeners who only know of the swinging Rat Packer more than a glimpse of the complexity and depth behind Frank Sinatra‘s art.
 
 
 
 
 
 
FRANK
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

EVERYTHING HAPPENS to ME
 
 
The TITLE SONG of The Album of The Same Name
 
 
This Collections of SONGS were FRANK SINATRA’S 
 
FAVORITE SONGS THAT HE RECORDED
 
Learn How to Make
 
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alla BELLINO
 
The RECIPE Is In SUNDAY SAUCE 
 
by DANIEL BELLINO “Z”
 
 
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Frank Sinatra The Main Event – Madison Square Garden New York

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FRANK SINATRA
The MAIN EVENT
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
LIVE
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FRANK SINATRA
The MAIN EVENT
 
The OVERTURE
Introduction by HOWARD COSELL
October 13th 1974
Madison Square Garden
NEW YORK
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Francis Albert Sinatra
Live at MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
“The MAIN EVENT”
Broadcast Live October 13, 1974
LADY is a TRAMP
Cole Porter’s “I GET a KICK OUT of YOU”
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Sinatra: The Main Event was an ABC musical television special starring Frank Sinatrabroadcast on October 13, 1974. The special documents a concert given by Sinatra at Madison Square Garden in New York City, in which Sinatra is accompanied by the Woody Herman band, and introduced by Howard Cosell.
The concert that was broadcast, was the last of a series of six that Sinatra gave at Madison Square Garden in October 1974, the audio from the concerts had also been taped and the highlights would be released as The Main Event – Live. The saxophonist Jerry Doidgson who performed on the concerts felt that the televised performance wasn’t as strong as the others as Sinatra’s natural pacing of the concert was disrupted by the mechanisms of television production.





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“But You Needn’t Rise”

Frank Sinatra
MY WAY
The MAIN EVENT
Madison Square Garden New York
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Frank Sinatra – The World We Knew

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FRANCIS ALBERT SINATRA



Frank Sinatra

“The WORLD We KNEW”

The World We Knew (Over and Over)” is a song recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1967. It is based on a composition by Bert Kaempfert, a German musician and composer.

The song first appeared on Sinatra’s 1967 album The World We Knew and was released as a single later that year. “The World We Knew (Over and Over)” peaked at number thirty on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in September 1967.  On the Billboard easy listening chart, it spent five weeks at number one, and was Sinatra’s sixth and final single to top that chart.

Charles Aznavour translated the song into French under the title “Un monde avec toi” for Paul Mauriat and Mireille Mathieu . The song was also translated into Italian by Fred Bongusto under the title “Ore D’Amore”. Josh Groban covered the song on his album Harmony.









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Sinatra at Jillys – New York City

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SINATRA at JILLY’S

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JILLY’S


Ermenegildo ‘Jilly’ Rizzo was an American restaurateur, entertainer and a long-time friend of Frank Sinatra.

Born in 1917 in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of New York, Rizzo first worked for his father delivering ice to cafes and had a variety of other restaurant jobs before opening his eponymous saloon.

Jilly’s, located in midtown Manhattan, became known as the city’s swinging-est place to be. Sinatra frequented his old pal’s place often and brought along friends like the famous American bandleader and composer Count Basie.

As you can see from the menu, the food was standard stuff – people came for the atmosphere and the hope of bumping into America’s favorite crooner and his glamorous buddies.

Rizzo later became one of Sinatra’s chief aides and closest confidantes and was referenced in the song Mrs Robinson, featured in Sinatra’s 1969 album My Way. ‘And here’s to you, Mrs Robinson, Jilly loves you more than you will know…’

Rizzo was also a frequent guest on the comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, delivering one-liners in his monotone New York accent.

Sinatra, who was based in California, persuaded Jilly to open another establishment there in the late 1980s.

Rizzo died at the age of 75 in Rancho Mirage, CA, in 1992, when his car was struck by a drunk driver. According to reports at the time, Sinatra went into seclusion on news of the death of his old friend. He died in 1998.


FRANK SINATRA HOLDS COURT

JILLY’S NEW YORK


The MENU

JILLY’S

NEW YORK

WHERE FRANK SINATRA HELF COURT


MENU

APPETIZERS & GOODIES

“JILLY’S”

Circa 1970s





APPEtIZERS & GOODIES

FANTAIL SHRIMP $6.75
BABY BACK RIBS $3.50
EGG ROLL. $2.25
ROAST PORK. $4.00
CHICKEN SANDWICH  $3.25
STEAK SANDWICH. $7.00
CHOW MEIN. $3.50
SHRIMP CHOW MEIN $5.00

SUGGESTIONS For DINNER

CHICKEN CHOW MEIN. $3.50
SHRIMPS with LOBSTER SAUCE  $6.00
BEEF with OYSTER SAUCE.  $5.00
STEAK KEW.  $8.00
WILDEST FRIED RICE. $3.50
MOO GOO GAI PAN $4.50 
STEAK with SALAD. $8.50





FRANK & FRIENDS
At JILLY’S
NEW YORK CITY





JILLY’S


Many know that Jilly’s was favourite New York Bar. Owned by Frank Sinatra close friend Jilly Rizzo. Most would be surprised to know that the restaurant served Chinese Food. Frank loved Jilly’s and held court there any time he was in New York.

When Frank arrived, he would yell down to the Chinese Cook, making some kind of remark to pull the cooks buttons. The cook would yell back in broken English “Fuckk You Frank” !!! Sinatra loved it and would start laughing. This is how Sinatra always started a night out at Jilly’s, getting a little chuckle. Of course Frank would leave the cook a huge tip.