The Sinatra Sauce Recipe Cookbook by DANIEL BELLINO

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SINATRA SAUCE “Music Meatballs & Merriment”

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

Sinatra Sauce “Music Metaballs & Merriment” and Living The Good Life. “Like Frank” .. Yes, it’s about Frank. That is one Francis Albert Sinatra, the Greatest Singer of The 20th Century, and Icon of American, especially of the Italian-American Enclave in America. Frank Sinatra was many things, first and foremost a Great Italian-American singer, Love & Adored by Millions. Mr. Sinatra was also an actor, citizen, and Entertainer Par Excellence. Yes this book is about those things, Frank Sinatra : the incomparable singer, actor, recording artist, Teen Idol of the 1940s, philanthropist, and Las Vegas & Nightclub Entertainer. He was like no other, Sinatra was one-of-a- kind, and he had a lust for life, “Hanging with Friends,” – sipping cocktails, with good food, and making good times. That’s what this book is about, Frank Sinatra, eating (Italian Food), enjoying a cocktail or two, and the company of family and friends. Yes, Frank Sinatra lived life to its fullest. He wouldn’t have it any other way, but “His Way.”

This book “Inspires” and gives you the tools to live out your Sinatra Dreams. You can make it reality, with recipes of Frank’s Favorite Italian Foods, Pasta, Meatballs, Posillipo, Eggplant Parm and more. Eating, drinking, and having good times, all the time as Frank did. Meals with friends and family. Meals you can cook, with recipes in this book. The info and recipes are all here in Sinatra Sauce. Read it, put on some Sinatra (music), cook, eat, and create memorable times at the table, just like Frank. That’s what this book is about: Sinatra, Family, Friends, and Good Times. “The Best is Yet to Come”

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Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke is a lifelong Sinatra fan. He is a Best Selling author, who lives and writes in New York’s Greenwich Village. Daniel is currently working on several other projects. He has authored : Sunday Sauce, La Tavola, Mangia Italiano, Grandma Bellino’s Cookbook, Segreto Italiano, and Positano The Amalfi Coast – Travel Guide / Cookbook.

Recipes :

SINATRA TOMATO SAUCE

DOLLY’S MEATBALLS

EGGPLANT PARMIGIANA

CAPONATA

ARTICHOKES SICILIAN STYLE

ARANCINI (Sicilian Rice Balls)

MINESTRONE alla DOLLY

DINO’S PASTA FAZOOL

MACCHERONI al FORNO

SICILIAN LASAGNA

CHICKEN VESUVIO

VEAL MARSALA

STEAK – SINATRA’S WAY

MARTY’S SICILIAN MEATLOAF

FRANK’S ITALIAN CHEESECAKE

REGINELLA SICILIAN COOKIES

And Much More !!!

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Sinatra Bellino & Luciano – The Sinatra Sauce Cookbook

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“SINATRA SAUCE”

aka The SINATRA COOKBOOK

by Daniel Bellino Zwicke

COOK & EAT LIKE FRANK

His FAVORITE ITALIAN FOOD RECIPES

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SINATRA SAUCE “Music Meatballs & Merriment”

Daniel Bellino Zwicke

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Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke is a lifelong Sinatra fan. He is a Best Selling author, who lives and writes in New York’s Greenwich Village. Daniel is currently working on several other projects.

He has authored : Sunday Sauce, La Tavola, Mangia Italiano, Grandma Bellino’s Cookbook, Segreto Italiano, and Positano The Amalfi Coast – Travel Guide / Cookbook.

Recipes : SINATRA SAUCE

SINATRA TOMATO SAUCE

DOLLY’S MEATBALLS

EGGPLANT PARMIGIANA

CAPONATA

ARTICHOKES SICILIAN STYLE

ARANCINI (Sicilian Rice Balls)

MINESTRONE alla DOLLY

DINO’S PASTA FAZOOL

MACCHERONI al FORNO

SICILIAN LASAGNA

CHICKEN VESUVIO

VEAL MARSALA

STEAK – SINATRA’S WAY

MARTY’S SICILIAN MEATLOAF

FRANK’S ITALIAN CHEESECAKE

REGINELLA SICILIAN COOKIES

And Much More !!!

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The cookbook is

Sinatra Sauce: Music Meatballs & Merriment by Daniel Bellino Zwicke. It was published on November 7, 2024, and is available for purchase on Amazon. The book features recipes of Frank Sinatra’s favorite Italian dishes, combined with stories about the legendary singer and his favorite restaurants.

About the Cookbook

Recipes and stories: The book combines recipes with anecdotes and stories about Frank Sinatra’s life, his passion for Italian food, and dining experiences with friends and family.

Family connection: It includes classic Italian-American recipes inspired by meals made by Sinatra’s mother and father.
Dining experiences: It covers Sinatra’s experiences dining at famous establishments such as Patsy’s in Manhattan and Jilly’s in New York.
Featured dishes: Recipes include classic Italian-American dishes like spaghetti and meatballs, eggplant parmigiana, lasagna, and clams posillipo.
Author: Daniel Bellino Zwicke is an Italian cookbook author and lifelong Sinatra fan who lives in New York’s Greenwich Village.

Based on documented reports from his favorite restaurants and anecdotes from his family,

Frank Sinatra had several favorite Italian dishes. The recipes for these classic Italian-American foods are featured in the cookbook Sinatra Sauce: Music Meatballs & Merriment by Daniel Bellino Zwicke.

Veal Milanese

A breaded and fried veal cutlet was one of Sinatra’s all-time favorite meals. At his regular New York haunt, Patsy’s Italian Restaurant, the chefs would make his cutlets pounded extra thin and served crispy with a light arugula salad on top.

Clams Posillipo

A Neapolitan dish, Sinatra regularly ordered this plate of littleneck clams served in a light tomato and herb sauce. Because he was not a fan of overpowering garlic, Patsy’s chefs would sauté whole garlic cloves in oil to extract the flavor, then remove them before adding the sauce ingredients.

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Sinatra had a deep appreciation for the Sunday sauce and meatballs he grew up with. He was known for his simple yet classic spaghetti with fresh tomato sauce. The Sinatra Saucecookbook features his mother Dolly’s meatballs and a recipe for “Sunday Gravy“.

Fusilli with Garlic & Anchovies

At Patsy’s, Sinatra also enjoyed this simple pasta dish, which featured fusilli pasta with garlic, anchovies, and breadcrumbs.

Sicilian Stuffed Artichokes

Sinatra’s preferred appetizer was stuffed artichokes. Just as with the clams, he requested that the restaurant go light on the garlic.

Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake

For dessert, Sinatra’s sweet tooth was often satisfied with a slice of lemon ricotta torte.

Frank Sinatra did not eat a lot of sweets, but he loved this Cheesecake, and another favorite were “Regina Cookies” which are Sicilian Sesame Seed Cookies, and the recipe is in “Siantar Sauce” (Cookbook).

SINATRA BELLINO & “LUCKY” LUCIANO

Sinatra Sauce Cookbook by Daniel Bellino Zwicke, whose family is from the same town in Sicily that Frank Sinatra’s father – Martino Severino Sinatra was from, the town of Lercara Friddi, Sicily. Also from this town was infamous Mafia Boss – Charles “Lucky” Luciano, born in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, his parents immigrated to New York City 1906. The Luciano family settled into an apartment on East 10th Street in the East Village of New York City. Incidentally the author of the Sinatra Sauce Cookbook, Daniel Bellino Z, lived in the East Village as well when he firsted moved to New York City. Daniel had an apartment on the corner of Avenue A & St. Marks Place, just two short blocks from where “Lucky” Luciano once lived.

At JILLY’S

Frank Sinatra, Holds Court at “JILLY’S” New York

With Daughters Tina & Nancy Sinatra & Friends

CHARLES “LUCKY” LUCIANO

of Lercara Friddi, Sicily

And NEW YORK CITY

Author DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE

NEW YORK CITY

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Sinatra Sauce The Cookbook – Franks favorite Italian Recipes

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FRANK SINATRA

COME FLY WITH ME

SUNDAY SAUCE and SINATRA

Recipe

It’s an old tradition in my family, that most Sunday the Bellino Family gathers together and we eat Sunday Sauce Italian Gravy. The whole family gets together and Grandma House, or Aunt Helen’s, but mostly at Aunt Fran’s House in Lodi, New Jersey. It’s a wonderful all day affair, starting with a little antipasto, followed by the star of the show, Sunday Sauce. Aunt Fran or Aunt Helen usually make the Sauce (Gravy), which is the most supreme dish of all. It’s a long simmered tomato sauce laden with special meat treats, that include: Sausages, Meatballs, and Braciole. We eat it with short maccheroni, usually rigatoni. “It’s the Best Thing ever,” we all just love it, and who wouldn’t, it’s so damn tasty, it is.

After the Sunday Sauce, it’s on to dessert and coffee, which is a 3 or 4 hour affair, as the grownups sit around the table drinking Espresso (with Anisette) and eating all the tasty desserts that’s made of a whole array of sweet treats, like: Aunt Fran’s Ricotta Cookies, Cannoli, Sfogliatelle, and whatever sweets that other visitors might bring. And there’s a whole lot of talking about this that and every other thing: sports, politics, gossip and what not, all as Frank Sinatra records play softly in the background. Always. Aunt Wanda loves Jerry Vale, and Dino has his turn too. Those were warm and wonderful days spent with loved ones, and sadly all of the older generation is gone, and we miss them dearly. But me, I think of them often, and especially when it comes to Sundays, eating all day long, cahtting and having fun, eating maccheroni, sausage, Meatballs, and Braciole, listening to Sinatra, and loving it all. My cousins Joe, Tony, and I keep it going. We try to organize as many get-together s as we can, always centered around food, whatever it may be: fresh fish, pasta, Steak, and our all-time favorite Sunday Sauce. And don’t forget Sinatra, Francis Albert that is. Or just simply Frank.

Basta !

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Frank Sinatra

The SUMMER WIND

A Pot of SUNDAY SAUCE

“GRAVY”

RECIPES

FRANK and FRIENDS

At GILLY’S

NEW YORK

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Eat Like Sinatra – Franks Favorite Restaurants Pasta and Italian Recipes – Frank Sinatra Cookbook

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“FRANK”

Francis Albert Sinatra

“SINATRA SAUCE” !!!

A Young Frank Sinatra …. Hoboken, New Jersey

“SINATRA SAUCE” !!!

Frank Sinatra

“Come Fly with Me” !!!

PATSY’S “Franks Favorite Restaurant”

Frank’s Favorite Restaurant in The World, was Patsy’s on West 56th Street in New York, in The Theater District near Times Square .. Frank’s Favorites were; Calms Posillipo, Spaghetti Pomodoro, Veal Milanes (extra Thin & Crispy) and Spaghetti & Meatballs of which patsy’s makes The Best in The City ..

PATSY’S is by far the restaurant most associated with SINATRA — on its website, the restaurant notes that it “has been known for years as the restaurant Frank Sinatra made famous.” You can still order up old-school Italian there, but you might not have the exact same experience as Sinatra, who was said to have entered through a special door to sit at a reserved table on the second floor. Sinatra became especially loyal to the restaurant after making a solo Thanksgiving reservation one year, not realizing the restaurant was slated to be closed that day. Patsy Scognamillo didn’t want to turn Sinatra away, so he allowed the reservation. He also didn’t want Sinatra to know the restaurant was opened just for him — so he had the entire staff bring their families to fill the place up, something Sinatra didn’t learn until years later, according to Patsy’s lore. The restaurant still celebrates its connection to Sinatra: At right, in 2002, Joe Scognamillo served actor Bill Boggs, who had dressed up as Sinatra . (236 West 56th St.)

FRANK & AVA

“MANGIA BENE”

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FRANK & DINO

PJ CLARKE’S

3rd AVENUE, Midtown MANHATTAN

SINATRA ‘S ALL-TIME FAVORITE BAR / SALOON

FRANK’S FAVORITE ITALIAN BREAD

PARISI BAKERY MOTT STREET

LITTLE ITALY, NY NY

FRANKS FAVORITE PIZZA

PATSY’S in EAST HARLEM

No Relation to PATSY’S on 56th STREET

PATSY’S PIZZERIA

EAST HARLEM

“FRANK’S FAVORITE PIZZA

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SINATRA at JILLY’S New York with Friends and Daughters NANCY and TINA

Frank loved going to his close Pal JILLY RIZZO’S New York Restaurant JILLY’S where Frank would eat Chinese Food, tell stories, and drink JACK DANIEL’S to the Wee Hours of the morning.

SUNDAY SAUCE

WHEN ITALIAN-AMERICANS COOK

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Dean Martin looks on as Sammy Davis Jr. pours Frank a Jack Daniels

Jack Daniel’s and Frank Sinatra

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FRANK SINATRA with Cigarette & JACK DANIELS

Dom of DOM’S BAKERY Hoboken , New Jersey

FRANK SINATRA had DOM Send him BREAD to Palm Springs , California

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FOCCACIA From DOM’S BAKERY

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“RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNA”

by Daniel Bellino “Z”

Author Daniel Bellino “Z” has the same ancestral Sicilian Roots as Frank Sinatra and one Charles “Lucky” Luciano who was born in LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY , as was Frank SInatra ‘s father Martino Severino Sinatra and Bellino ‘s maternal grandparents Giussepina Salemi and Fillipo Bellino who both immigrated from Lercara Friddi to New York through Ellis Island in 1904 . In 1906 Luciano ‘s parents immigrated and settled on the Lower East Side of New York when young Charlie (Salvatore ) was 9 years old.

Charles “Lucky” Luciano

Born in Lercara Friddi

Lucina

SINATRA’S Favorite PIZZA !!!

PATSY’S in Eats Harlem , New York NY

2287 1st Avenue neat 117th Street

Opened in 1933 by Patsy Lancieri

The 21 CLUB

A Favorite SINATRA Haunt For Years

SINATRA arrives at The 21 CLUB with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Good Friend and Bodyguard JILLY RIZZO and a U.S. SECRET SERVICE AGENT

The 21 BURGER

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Frank Sinatra Favorite Italian Cookies – Sicilian Regina Cookies from Venieros

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VENIERO’S

ITALIAN PASTRIES

Since 1894

On September 23, 1894, one of the East Village’s longest-running businesses, Veniero’s Pasticceria, opened its doors. This venerable local institution has been serving confections, cakes, and pastries to New Yorkers and visitors ever since from its home at 342 Eas t 11th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues, in the heart of what was once the East Village’s own Little Italy, and remains one of the few surviving businesses from that once-thriving community. Located just down the block from our offices, we have a special love for Veniero’s — from which we have been known to indulge in a treat from time to time (or more) — and a special insight into the beloved business’ rich history, thanks to an oral history that Veniero’s current co-owner Robert Zerilli, grand nephew of Veniero’s original founder, conducted with us in 2014.

Antonio Veniero immigrated to New York from Italy in 1885, in the period following Italian unification when poor Italians, especially southern Italians, began to leave the country en masse, seeking better lives and opportunities. At 15 years old, Antonio began working in a candy factory downtown. By 1894, he bought today’s 342 East 11th Street, a pre-old-law tenement built in 1865-66. Originally the business, then called Antonio Veniero Confections, was founded as a social club, complete with pool tables. Antonio sold homemade candy and espresso, the beans of which were roasted in the backyard. Veniero hired other Italian immigrants also skilled in confectionery. This part of the East Village was well populated with Italian immigrants, mostly Sicilian, although Antonio was from Naples. No. 342, which had residences above the ground floor, housed 13 families, all Italian immigrants or of Italian descent, according to the 1900 Federal census.

VENIERO’S PASTICCERIA

ITALIAN PASTRIES

East 11th Street, NY NY

The same census and 1900-1901 New York City directory show Antonio living with his wife and children across the street at No. 345, a no longer extant building. In his oral history, Robert Zerilliexplains that the business evolved from Antonio’s founding to serve baked goods such as biscotti and cakes, later renaming itself Veniero’s Pasticceri. Following Antonio’s death in 1931, the business would continue to be run by members of the family. In 1970, Frank Zerilli, Robert’s father and a cousin of the Venieros, bought the business. As a teenager, Frank Zerilli had worked in the bakery and learned a great deal working under Antonio.

Zerilli shares great stories of both the family and the neighborhood connected to Veniero’s, including Antonio’s managing to avoid firebombing by the Black Hand, (Mano Nero gang — a mafia extortion racket), neighborhood quarrels with other bakers and pushcart sellers, and a legal fight over the ownership of a coffee-sipping parrot.

Zerilli was born in 1962 and by that time his family lived in New Jersey. He would sometimes join his father for the workday in the East Village, and in his interview, Zerilli shared the sights, smells, and sounds of the East Village in his early years through the eyes of a child. One of the sounds that dominate his memories was the constant mix of English and Italian throughout the streets and small businesses in the area. As a teenager, he would work at Veniero’s, and lived in one of the apartments in the upper floors at No. 342, rent-free.

The neighborhood has changed quite a bit over the course of Zerilli’s tenure, and he talks about gentrification, as well as changing ethnicities and business and building ownership. On a side note, he mentions the East Village’s punk rock scene, and Joey Ramone coming to Veniero’s to buy a cake. Veniero’s itself has changed over the years too, adding items like red velvet cupcakes, which Zerilli discusses his reluctance to include. One of the many things that hasn’t changed, though, is that Veniero’s is still very much a family-run business, with Robert and his three sisters at the helm as co-owners.

ITALIAN PASTRIES

CANNOLI – RHUM BABA – ECLAIRS

At VENEIRO’S

FRANK SINATRA’S FAVORITE COOKIES

SICILIAN REGINA COOKIES

VENIERO’S

FRANK SINATRA & FRANK ZERILLI

At VENIERO’S

1979

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Frank & Tony – Sinatra and Curtis

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FRANK & TONY

““Frank Sinatra and Tony Curtis were close, lifelong friends. They knew each other since the 1940s when Sinatra was playing the Paramount. In 1958 they were in the movie Kings Go Forth together. Curtis is often mentioned as part of The Clan/Rat Pack in the 1950s and 1960s. Tina Sinatra remembered that when her father was old and sick, she once found Tony Curtis cradling her father in his arms.

Sinatra called Curtis “Bernie” (pronounced “Boinie”), because his real name was Bernard Schwartz.

Here are some of the things that Tony Curtis said about Frank Sinatra, in interviews and in his memoir.

“When I met him, I realized he was very nice with everyone around him. He wasn’t so obnoxious. That was the rumor about Frank, that you didn’t know what he had in mind.”

“I became an honorary member of Frank’s Rat Pack; I never went on stage with Frank, Dean, Sammy, Joey Bishop, or Peter Lawford, but anytime they had a get-together, I was invited. Whenever those guys got up to any kind of mischief, I was there. They treated me like a kid brother, which brought out the best in everyone.”

“I knew a lot about Frank. We were really close. He liked me a lot, and that meant a lot to me. To be a friend of Frank’s was a great help in those early days. I didn’t abuse it or take advantage of it. I would just make myself available when he would call or want to go out to dinner.”

“When he was not angry, there was a calm humanness about him. He would always stick up for his buddies. He was always available. He would stick up for you even if the guy was a big guy.”

“Frank wasn’t a womanizer – he was womanized! What a great position to be in! You know, those were carefree, intelligent, and very stimulating days and nights!”

“Women would flock around him. Then the husbands or the boyfriends found themselves ill at ease. I couldn’t understand it, you know? Frank wasn’t gonna take ‘em anywhere. He’d just hang-out there.”

“He’s one of the biggest prudes I’ve ever met…he’s an old-fashioned man. I’ve never heard him use a vulgar word in front of a woman!”

“Frank Sinatra was like the sun, with a lot of people revolving around him.”

“Notice I don’t bring up the Mafia. He in himself was his own godfather. He ran his own family and his friends like that. Untouchable.”

“Frank exhibited the traits I admired most in a person, namely his unfailing self-confidence.”

“I would make model airplanes, the kind you make with balsa wood. I’d make it with glue and the things that would make it work. He was so pleased because he told me, ‘I was never able to get that body in the plane right’. So, he’d throw his stuff away. But, there I was making the bodies and he’d say will I add to it? Then, we’d paper it. We did the wings. We put a rubber band in it, and a propeller. We’d go out in his garage, in back, and I’d wind it up and let it go. The f***er would ram into a wall, and there it was all broken again. We did this two or three times. Sometimes we had more success than others. But, I loved him for that.”

Tony Curtis wrote about one time at the Sands when he was very drunk and Frank and Dean threw him into the swimming pool fully dressed.

Tony Curtis: “I climbed out of the pool… freshened up, and went back down to the casino. I was still a little dizzy, but at least I was keeping my eyes open. When Frank saw me he said, ‘Where have you been?’

‘Somebody threw me in the pool,’ I said. ‘I had to go upstairs and change.’ Frank said, ‘Who in the world would do that?’ I told him I thought he might have had something to do with it, but he denied it,and I couldn’t be sure I had remembered it right.”

Tony Curtis wrote that during the filming of Sweet Smell of Success, he was “the recipient of one of Frank’s legendary acts of thoughtfulness.” He was learning to play the flute for the movie and would often go over to Sinatra’s house to practice.

Tony Curtis: “I’d come over to Frank’s house and practice playing my flute for him. Frank was impressed that I was learning this new skill for my part in the movie, and he noticed that I was playing a cheap flute I’d picked up. So without telling me, he went out one day and bought me a magnificent flute, a priceless gift that I cherish to this day.”

In an interview, he talked about the flute too and called it “one of my sacred possessions from The Man.”

Frank Sinatra once said Tony Curtis was his favorite actor “because he beat the odds.”

Their mutual friend Sidney Poitier said of Tony Curtis, “When you’re with Tony Curtis, you’re with somebody very alive. He was – and is – one of the most ‘up’ people I have ever known.”

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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

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A FELLOW SICILIAN-AMERICAN of FRANK SINATRA ‘S

Spaghetti Meatballs alla Sinatra – Nancy Barbato Sinatra Recipe

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NANCY BARBATO SINATRA

SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS

From the WFBL COOK BOOK OF THE STARS

FRANK SINATRA Born in Hoboken, Frank was an only son. His mother came to this country from Genoa and father from Sicily. As a lad, Frank had always been crazy about music, but his parents failed to share his enthusiasm of making a career of it. His first singing spot was with Harry James, then Tommy Dorsey. The turning point in Frank Sinatra’s career came in January, 1943, when he signed for a series of personal appearances at New York’s Paramount Theater. Then and there, he became “The Voice.” Sinatra’s slight build is kept in hard trim by his prowess at boxing, golf and bowling.

MRS. FRANK SINATRA’S RECIPE FOR SPAGHETTI AND MEAT BALLS

MEAT BALLS –

1 lb. chopped meat, 1/2 pork, 1/2 beef

1 clove garlic (chopped fine)

1/2 cup grated Italian cheese

1 cup bread crumbs

1 teaspoon finely chopped parsley

Salt and pepper to taste

(Mix all well, form into balls, brown in oil and put aside until sauce is made.)

SAUCE

1 large can Italian style tomatoes

1 can tomato puree

1 small onion

1 clove garlic

1 teaspoon ground parsley

1/2 cup olive oil

Thyme

Salt

Black pepper

DIRECTIONS

Brown chopped up onion and garlic in oil in which you brown meat balls. Strain tomatoes, add puree to the juice. Add the oil in which you have browned onion and garlic, but remove all sauteed ingredients. Season with salt, pepper, thyme and parsley. Cook the sauce (covered) for 1 hour, with meatballs added, over a slow fire.

Boil spaghetti in water, salted to taste. Remove spaghetti, drain. Serve it on a platter over which you have poured sauce and meat balls. Add layer of cheese, and add full covering of sauce, add another layer of cheese and another layer of sauce. Serve piping hot.

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Above, you have the SPAGHETTI & MEATBALLS Recipe of Nancy Sinatra. Nancy Barbato Sinatra, Frank’s wife, not his daughter Nancy.

In the book “Sinatra Sauce,” along with many other recipes is another Spaghetti & Meatballs recipe, but not Frank’s wife Nancy, but his mother Dolly’s recipe. Both are excellent, we’re sure you will agree. If you want to know more of Frank Sinatra, the foods he loved, and grew up with in the Italian Enclave in Hoboken, New Jersey, along with all of Frank’s favourite dishes and restaurants around the country and the World. Dishes like Chicken Vesuvius of Chicago, BBQ Ribs from The Anchor Bar in Chicago, Veal Milanese and Clams Posillipo from “Patsy’s Restaurant” in New York, and Frank’s afternoon Egg Sandwich in Palm Springs, California.

FRANK SINATRA

At HOME in PALM SPRINGS

EATING his DAILY Afternoon EGG SANDWICH

RECIPE

Sinatra Tomato Sauce – Recipe

On November 18, 2024 By Daniel BellinoLeave a comment

Frank Sinatra

TOMATO SAUCE

Who knew that Frank Sinatra had a signature tomato sauce or even that the beloved star enjoyed spending time in a kitchen? Well, a whole lot of people in the 1970s got a glimpse of those chef proclivities when Sinatra appeared on NBC’s hit daytime show starring Dinah Shore. In a “Dinah’s Place” episode, the Rat Pack celebrity dished on and dished out his signature tomato sauce, rightfully credited as having come from his Italian-immigrant mother Natalie Della Garaventa, affectionately known as Dolly Sinatra.

Sinatra’s version is a pretty stress-free version of a classic Italian sauce, relying on cans of tomato puree and Italian-style tomatoes, which could include the renowned San Marzano tomatoes from the Agro Sarnese Nocerino region of Southern Italy. Due to volcanic soils from the nearby towering Mount Vesuvius, these tomatoes tend to be sweeter with intense tomato flavors and less acid than other varieties. The exact recipe attributed to Sinatra tends to vary slightly depending on the cookbook or source, but it’s generally agreed that the canned tomatoes get pureed in a blender and added later to a pot of emerging ingredients. Onions and minced fresh garlic get sauteed in olive oil on the stovetop, joined by the blended tomatoes and Italian-favorite spices such as parsley, thyme, and black pepper. That’s about it — just cook on low for a few minutes and top with crushed red pepper and extra fresh parsley.

Once you know Sinatra’s connection to Italian food, it makes sense when finding photos of him in a chef’s hat or seeing his name tied to Italian recipes in magazines and cookbooks, like the 2013 book SUNDAY SAUCE – When Italian-Americans Cook. He’s certainly in good company there, with his Spaghetti and Meatballs recipe appearing alongside a Sunday gravy from Joe DiMaggio’s Mama and several recipe incarnations from famous movie scenes, such as a Brooklyn Mob War Sauce from “The Godfather” and a Sauce in Prison from “The Goodfellas.”

Some of Frank Sinatra’s favorite foods were known to be Italian dishes, and he maintained enduring devotion to Italian cooking and restaurants, including the recently reopened La Dolce Vita in Hollywood and Patsy’s Italian Restaurant in New York City. Much like his inimitable fame and fan devotion, Sinatra and his mama’s tomato sauce recipe is still around — and it’s a fresh and easy take on classic Italian saucing.

Wendy Leigh

February 21, 2024