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The Sinatra Family Cookbook? Well, not exactly, just the closest thing to it. There was actually a book called The Celebrity Cookbook, and it was so incredibly awful that it's criminal. How can anyone who was collaborating with Frank Sinatra, on a so-called cookbook produce such utter garbage. It;s absolutely appalling !' We don't even know who wrote it. There's no listing of an author, just that it's Barbara Sinatra and Friends. Was she the author. No doubt there was a book editor who put the thing together. Whoever the people are that had this incredible opportunity and completely and utterly "Blew It" should be banished to Siberia. It's that bad.
These people had the chance of a lifetime, and blew it. The produce just about the Worst piece a garbage that could have possibly been made. And in the name of Frank Sinatra. It mystifies me how this was ever done. They were given a task of utmost importance, and what they turned out? I just don't understand how this piece of garbage was ever put out. Were the people working with Frank, afraid to say anything.
A cookbook in Frank Sinatra's name would have portrayed the rich Italian-American Culinary Delights that Frank Sinatra enjoyed his whole life, and there is absolutely nothing. It's a list of crappy celebrity recipes, put together so unprofessionally that it's a crime. They could have told the story of Frank's parents individually, with his father Martino coming from Lercara Friday, Sicily, with one of the richest culinary history's in the entire World with such famed dishes as Caponata, Pasta al Norma, Pasta con Sarde, Panelle, Arancini, Cannoli, and much more. And Frank's mother was from a town in Liguria, near Genoa, with its famed Pesto Genovese, Pansotti, and Focaccia, to name a few local dishes of the area. There should have been stories of Martin and Dolly Sinatra cooking for young Frankie, family dinners and good times, and Sinatra's favourite restaurants in Chicago, New York, LA, and around the World, and nothing. Not even a single sentence. This is without a doubt one of the greatest crimes in cookbook, and publishing history of all time. The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook is so Bad, it's beyond belief. "What the Hell Happened" ?
Barbara Sinatra and the people who helped her produce one of the worst cookbooks in publishing history, and in the name of the great Frank Sinatra ? Something is really wrong.
Well, you can't cry over spilled milk as they say, but, it sure is a shame.
Well, sad to say, t there is not much written on Franks Sinatra eating habits, dishes his father Marty made, and his mother Dolly. Though it is said that Marty Sinatra was the better cook, and cooked most of the family meals, which would have been Sicilian, and dishes from Marty (Saverio Martino) who was born in Lercara Friddi Sicily, before his family immigrated to New York in 1903 ...
Those people, Barbara Sinatra and Friends had a chance to write something great, but failed miserably. They had a chance to talk to Frank, get all the stories of Frank Sinatra, the foods he loved, what his father and mother cooked, as well as dining adventures in New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Italy, all around American and the World. The did not even write one paragraph, not even one sentence on anything. Again it's an absolute crime that the people behind this book were ever given the go ahead.
Anyway, since those people failed so terribly, the closest thing we can find, other than a few tidbits in magazine articles here and there, the best thing we could find, as far as a cookbook and Frank Sinatra, food and Italian and Sicilian Recipes, is a book by Daniel Bellino Zwicke, called Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook - Recipes From My Sicilian Grandmother. The authors maternal grandparents, his grandfather Philipo Bellino and his nonna Giuseppina Salemi Bellino of Lercara Friddi, Sicily, the same town that both Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Frank Sinatra's father
Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra was born. Martino (Marty) learned how to cook the Sicilian dishes of Lecara Friddi from his mother and a couple of his aunts. Marty was quite the cook, and cooked most of the Sinatra Family meals that young Frank and Dolly Sinatra ate. Dishes like : Eggplant Caponata, Ziti al Forno (with Meatballs), Timballo d' Agneletti, Zuppa di Lenticchie, and various pasta, soup, Chicken, Meat and Fish recipes. We found the recipes from these dishes, the same that Marty Sinatra cooked for his wife and son Francis Albert, in Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook.
So there you go. If you want to know a bit about Frank Sinatra, and the Sicilian Food that he like to eat, get Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook, what we like to call The Sinatra Family Cookbook. It's the best you can do. So get a copy, book some recipes, put on some Sinatra albums, sit down at the table, and "Eat Like Frank."
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These people had the chance of a lifetime, and blew it. The produce just about the Worst piece a garbage that could have possibly been made. And in the name of Frank Sinatra. It mystifies me how this was ever done. They were given a task of utmost importance, and what they turned out? I just don't understand how this piece of garbage was ever put out. Were the people working with Frank, afraid to say anything.
A cookbook in Frank Sinatra's name would have portrayed the rich Italian-American Culinary Delights that Frank Sinatra enjoyed his whole life, and there is absolutely nothing. It's a list of crappy celebrity recipes, put together so unprofessionally that it's a crime. They could have told the story of Frank's parents individually, with his father Martino coming from Lercara Friday, Sicily, with one of the richest culinary history's in the entire World with such famed dishes as Caponata, Pasta al Norma, Pasta con Sarde, Panelle, Arancini, Cannoli, and much more. And Frank's mother was from a town in Liguria, near Genoa, with its famed Pesto Genovese, Pansotti, and Focaccia, to name a few local dishes of the area. There should have been stories of Martin and Dolly Sinatra cooking for young Frankie, family dinners and good times, and Sinatra's favourite restaurants in Chicago, New York, LA, and around the World, and nothing. Not even a single sentence. This is without a doubt one of the greatest crimes in cookbook, and publishing history of all time. The Sinatra Celebrity Cookbook is so Bad, it's beyond belief. "What the Hell Happened" ?
Barbara Sinatra and the people who helped her produce one of the worst cookbooks in publishing history, and in the name of the great Frank Sinatra ? Something is really wrong.
Well, you can't cry over spilled milk as they say, but, it sure is a shame.
Well, sad to say, t there is not much written on Franks Sinatra eating habits, dishes his father Marty made, and his mother Dolly. Though it is said that Marty Sinatra was the better cook, and cooked most of the family meals, which would have been Sicilian, and dishes from Marty (Saverio Martino) who was born in Lercara Friddi Sicily, before his family immigrated to New York in 1903 ...
Those people, Barbara Sinatra and Friends had a chance to write something great, but failed miserably. They had a chance to talk to Frank, get all the stories of Frank Sinatra, the foods he loved, what his father and mother cooked, as well as dining adventures in New York, Chicago,
Los Angeles, Italy, all around American and the World. The did not even write one paragraph, not even one sentence on anything. Again it's an absolute crime that the people behind this book were ever given the go ahead.
Anyway, since those people failed so terribly, the closest thing we can find, other than a few tidbits in magazine articles here and there, the best thing we could find, as far as a cookbook and Frank Sinatra, food and Italian and Sicilian Recipes, is a book by Daniel Bellino Zwicke, called Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook - Recipes From My Sicilian Grandmother. The authors maternal grandparents, his grandfather Philipo Bellino and his nonna Giuseppina Salemi Bellino of Lercara Friddi, Sicily, the same town that both Charles "Lucky" Luciano and Frank Sinatra's father
Saverio Antonino Martino Sinatra was born. Martino (Marty) learned how to cook the Sicilian dishes of Lecara Friddi from his mother and a couple of his aunts. Marty was quite the cook, and cooked most of the Sinatra Family meals that young Frank and Dolly Sinatra ate. Dishes like : Eggplant Caponata, Ziti al Forno (with Meatballs), Timballo d' Agneletti, Zuppa di Lenticchie, and various pasta, soup, Chicken, Meat and Fish recipes. We found the recipes from these dishes, the same that Marty Sinatra cooked for his wife and son Francis Albert, in Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook.
So there you go. If you want to know a bit about Frank Sinatra, and the Sicilian Food that he like to eat, get Grandma Bellino's Italian Cookbook, what we like to call The Sinatra Family Cookbook. It's the best you can do. So get a copy, book some recipes, put on some Sinatra albums, sit down at the table, and "Eat Like Frank."
The FRANK SINATRA COOKBOOK Recipes
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