Yes Boys and Girls, all you Coffee Lovers out there, it’s True, Coffee is Good for You. Ye-Ha! Don’t you just love it. You might have heard from time-to-time that coffee is not good for you, bad for your health. Not So, but just the opposite, Coffee is Good for you. Coffee is High in Antioxidants, which can protect against damaged cells and reduce your risk of chronic disease including Diabetes, Heart Disease, and Strokes.
Now this is really good news, Great News in fact, the prevention and reduced risk of getting Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Stoke is major, and anything any sane person should be ecstatic and rejoice over, “I am.” Coffee can help prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson Disease. Awesome!
Just remember, moderation is the key, too much coffee can cause nausea, jitters, and a rapid heart beat. It is safe to drink up to 5 cups a day, if you start getting over 8 cups you may have problems and adverse side affects. So remember, enjoy your coffee, you can love it, but stay moderate and it will love you back. As for me, I just love and adore my morning coffee. I usually have a second cup in the late afternoon, but hardly ever after 4 PM and I’m finished for the day, until my next glorious morning cup to start another day, my Coffee, in the Cafe, the newspaper and I’m set, Buon Giorno!
THIS ARTICLE FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON THE POSITIVE BENEFITS OF DRINKING COFFEE, ALTHOUGH THERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES WHERE DRINKING COFFEE CAN BE BAD FOR YOU, SUCH AS PEOPLE WITH ANXIETY OR SLEEPING DISORDERS. IN TERMS OF HEALTH, COFFEE IS BEST DRUNK WHEN IT’S BLACK OR WITH VERY LITTLE SUGAR AND MILK ADDED. DRINKING A VENTI MOCHA WITH WHIPPED CREAM FOUR TIMES A DAY ISN’T GOOD FOR ANYONE.
Prime-Rib and Ringo! What you say? Yes I say “Prime-Rib and Ringo.”
What the Hell do they have to do with one-and-other? Isn’t Ringo a Vegetarian? Yes? But isn’t he English, Prime Rib Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding? Yes? Ringo is a Vegetarian, but he probably ate and loved Prime-Rib Roast Beef before he stopped eating meat, no? Yes, we thinks so. Question to you Ringo, “Did you eat and like Prime-Rib of Beef before you became a vegetarian?” We’d love to know. Please.
So, what the Hell does Ringo have to do with Prime-Rib you want to know. OK, I’ll tell you. Number one, I’ve loved Ringo way before I ever loved or ate my first tasty piece of Prime-Rib way back when. I’ve loved and known Ringo and The Beatles ever since I was 4 or 5 years old. Yes I did. I grew up with Ringo and The Beatles. They were the biggest thing on Earth, practically any ways. “Love Me Do,” I Wanna Hold Your Hand, “She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah,” The Beatles, Fab Four, John, Paul George, and Yes RINGO. And yes this was the order you would say their names when saying them one by one; first John, then Paul, George 3rd, and then at The End, for the Grand Finale “Ringo.”
OK so you love Ringo, you grew up with him and The Beatles you, “But What the Hell Does Ringo have to do with a juicy piece of Prime-Rib of Beef that he probably wouldn’t or couldn’t even want to eat?”
OK so as you all know by now, I love Prime-Rib, I love The Beatles, I love Ringo, so what does one have to do with the other? Where’s the tie-in?
Mr. Ringo Starr, some years ago put together a band called The All Stars. Being a Beatle, a drummer, musician, and performer Ringo as it so happens still loves playing drums and performing live.
Lately I have been thinking and dying for me a nice “Juicy” Piece of Prime-Rib. Dam they’re so yummy, so tasty. Having grown up in Jersey, I love me a nice piece of Prime-Rib of Beef every now and then. Prime-Rib of Beef is a big item in restaurants in Jersey, and many will have once a week Prime Rib Night where you can get yourself a nice piece of Prime Rib, a salad, vegetables, and potato, and maybe even some desert and or soup to start or a All-You-Can-Eat “Salad Bar” all for one nice very affordable price, somewhere around $19.99 to $24.95, whatever.
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“PEACE & LOVE”
I’ve lived in the great city of New York for more than 25 years now, and if there’s two things a former Jerseyite can’t get in New York, it’s Taylor Ham a good piece of reasonable priced
Prime Rib. Two things people in Jersey really love. You just can not find Taylor Ham in New York anywhere. Taylor Ham is a Jersey thing.
Now your’e talking about Taylor Ham you say? What the Hell? Real quick for those who don’t know, Taylor Ham is a commercially made pork-product similar in taste to “Spam” only better that was created in 1856 in Trenton, New Jersey by John Taylor. It’s yummy, and Jerseyites love it. It’s in there blood. Taylor Ham is sliced and pan-fried and usually goes on a plate with eggs for breakfast or in its most famous way with scrambled or fried eggs on a Taylor Ham & Egg Sandwich. Yumm! My mouth waters just thinking of one.
OK so that’s the quick skinny on Taylor Ham, along with Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, and yes Prime Rib, the most beloved of Jersey Eats. So to Prime Rib and New York City. Well Prime Rib is no where near as big, popular, or beloved in NY NY they way it is New Jersey, but you can get it here, and another “but,” but for a “Price.” And a big price at that. Pretty much the only place more or less that you’ll find Prime Rib in Manhattan is at any one of New York’s great Steak Houses. Yes, besides Sirloin Steaks, T-Bones, Porter House Steaks, Filet Mignon, and Jumbo Lobsters, you can get a nice piece of juicy Prime Rib of Beef at any Steak House in New York.
A Prime Rib dinner at a New York Steak House? What’s it gonna cost? Be prepared to dish out about a Hundred Bucks, maybe a little less depending upon if you go for lunch or dinner, lunch being a bit cheaper of course. Let’s take Smith & Wollensky one of New York’s great and most icon steak houses. At lunch you can get a nice piece of juicy Prime Rib for $36.50 .. You do mot get any vegetable or potato on the plate so add $6.50 for a baked potato. You have to have a least one drink, a beer, or glass of wine, add another $12.00 and your sub-total is $55. You gotta pay tax and leave the waiter a good tip, so your grand total is gonna be about $72 for a bare minimum Prime Rib lunch, at dinner your gonna be around a hundred bucks. No thanks unless you are rich or have a rich friend picking up the tab. Oh yeah I can afford this, but not very often, as most of us out there in the year 2012, 11, 2010, we hope 2013 will be better and 2014, the U.S. economy booming or near to it once again. “Hope and Pray my friends,” all of us 99%ers.
OK so I been dying to have me some Prime Rib of late. Even thinking of taking a trip out to Jersey to get one in one of the World’s Prime Rib meccas. Yes.
I have also been wanting to see Ringo and His All Star Band for some years now. Every time I’d see his name up on the Radio City Marquee, I’d say to myself “Self, one of these days you just gotta go see Ringo.” Yes.
So it’s June 2012 and I see Ringo is playing at the Jones Beach Theater and I might want to go. He’s not playing Radio City this year and getting to Jones Beach from Manhattan without a car can be though not impossible, a bit difficult it is, especially as compared to jumping in a cab or hopping a Subway up to Radio City, easy and just a matter of minutes. Well I started doing some research and went on to good ole Ringo’s website at RinogStarr.com .. As I was browsing through I see Todd Rundregn is in this years (2012) All Star Band … This seals the deal for me. Todd is awesome. I continue to look on the website and see the schedule for the whole concert tour. Ringo is playing The Mohegan Sun Casino Arena on June 17, a Sunday and my day off. Perfect. It’s my day off and it will be easier to get to the Mohegan Sun than to Jones Beach, and cheaper too with all the casino bus discounts and special offers. “I’m in.” I go on line and buy some tickets. Yee-Ha I’m all set. Gonna go see Ringo, finally, and this will complete me see each and every Beatle in person. I went to a George Harrison Concert at Madison Square garden when I was just a teenager. My first Beatle. Second was John Lennon as I saw him walking down West 72nd Street one day. Quite a thrill. Even more of a thrill was when I was the Maitre’d at Da Silvano Restaurant and met Paul McCartney twice. One of those days, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits and the great Bozz Scaggs just happened to be dining at Da Silvano as well. Paul chatted with both of them for several minutes. Quite exciting. So that’s three Beatles down, John, Paul, George, and now Ringo. I can’t wait, and there’s going to be a bonus, my Prime Rib Dinner, and it’s almost for free.
A free Prime rib Dinner you say? Where? At the Mohegan Sun Casino at their buffet restaurant Seasons. Well I got on the Casino Bus, rode up there to Connecticut to the casino. The bus trip is only $15 round trip and when you get to the casino and get off the bus you get two $20 betting vouchers and the all important $20 food voucher good at any Mohegan Sun Restaurant. Yeah Babee! I did as most people do opt for the big Buffet Dinner, just $24 and all the Spare Ribs, Oysters, Clams, Fried Clams, Fried Chicken, Pasta, Stir Frys, Fish, Roast Turkey, Salads, Veggies, “PRIME RIB” and tasty deserts you can eat. And believe me people eat.
So I get there, get on line, then pay just $4 after giving them my $20 food voucher. Awesome! We sit down, and I go up for my first bit of food, the appetizers. I get 1 piece of fried chicken, 2 Spare Ribs, and some Fired Clams. Yumm! Dam the Barbecued Spare Ribs are some of the tastiest I’ve ever had and if it was 2 or 3 years previous and I wasn’t eating healthier, I swear i would have eaten at least 8 or 10 of these Tasty Little Bad Boys. They were so dam tasty that I was seriously tempted to go get a couple more, as opposed to getting 6 or 8 more which I would have done a few years back. I’m proud of myself I had will power, I did not get any more Spare Ribs that I desperately wanted. good boy.
After I finished that 1st plate it was time to go up and get the Main-Event, the Prime Rib. As I approached the Prime Rib Roast Turkey Carving Station i noticed the carver guy was cutting the Beef kind of thin, especially for Prime Rib, “Man Prime Rib Has Just Gotta Be Thick!” You can’t eat it any other way. So I approached the guy cutting the Prime Rib and said nice and friendly like and with assertion, “Hey Buddy Give Me a Nice Thick Slice of That Prime Rib Please.” And he did, twice the thickness of others I’d seen him slice. Thank You Sir! I appreciate that. As you know, the Prime Rib has just Got To Be Thick.
Yes, the Prime Rib was Excellent, nice and Juicy, Dam tasty, just like the Pork Spare Ribs. Yummm!!!! We had a few deserts and it was off to see Ringo.
Needless to say, the concert was great. Ringo, Todd and the rest of the Band were absolutely Awesome. The All Star Band also had in it Steve Lukather of Toto (Friggin GREAT Guitarist), Rochard Page of Mr. Mister, and founding Santana keyboard player and lead singer Greg Rolie, aka “The Duke” of Santana. Todd did Hello It’s Me, a “Rockin” rendition of Bang The Drum, and my favorite Rundgren song “I Saw The Light.” Love it! The Band led by Santana keyboardist Greg Rolie did awesome renditions of “Black Magic Woman,” Everbody’s Everything, and Evils ways and former Toto guitaristist Steve Lakather was every bit Carlos Santana’s equal in lead guitar roll for the Santana songs along with Lakather playing guitar and lead vocals for Toto Monster Hits done by Ringo and The All Stars, which included the iconic “Roseanna” (written about actress Roseanna Arquette, along with “Africa.” Awesome Show and it exceeded our expectations.
I Loved it, “Prime-Rib and Ringo.” a Tasty Combination to say the least…
Monday, April 21, 2025 … It’s a sad day for 100 of Millions of People all over the World, especially those of The Catholic and Christian Faith, and even for many who are not Christians. Pope Francis, Papa Francisco millions of Latin peoples was beam of Wonderful Light for the people of The World. He was always smiling, and that warm, beautiful smile of his was pure joy for all those who saw it.
Being in the restaurant business in New York for many years, I saw, met, and conversed with many celebrities over the years, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Richard Gere, Tony Bennett, Mickey Mantle, and so many more. I’m not going to try and sound to cool for school, that it didn’t matter, or that it wasn’t exciting to meet so many celebrities, like many New Yorkers pretend that it isn’t a thrill at all. “It is,” and I’ve enjoyed meeting and chatting with them.
I never saw (in person), or met Pope Francis. No, I’m sure he never would have wanted to be called a Celebrity. He was a modest man, but without question, he was. A celebrity. According to Websters Dictionary, a Celebrity is – a famous or celebrated person, someone who is famous. And Pope Francis certainly was. I never saw or met Papa Franciso. I would have loved to. The man was warm, caring of others, sweet, and wonderful, and he made the World feel good. He was The Pope who was closer to people, more so than any Pope who ver lived. No other Pontiff came close to Pope Francis (Mario Bertoglio) of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
I’m not very religious at all, but I am a believer and I do love people who are, warm, wonderful, caring people. People like Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis. From the moment he was was elected Pope, Mario Bergoglio has been a shining light to millions. We felt his warmth simply by seeing a picture of him in a newspaper or magazine, seeing his warm smile, and witnessing his affection for children, and all of the people of the World. Pope Francis brought hope, understanding, and happiness to his many millions of followers, and we (myself & millions) will surely miss this beautiful man, who served his faithful so well, and should be a model for all Pope’s who follow in his footsteps. And we wonder what kind of a man, and leader of The Catholic Church, the next Pope will be. Papa Francisco is going to be a hard act to follow. We all loved him so very much, and we will miss him. Rest in Eternal Peace dear Jorge (aka Pope Francis), We Love You, and as you often asked “We Pray For You,” may God Bless You Always.
I got lost in VENICE at Night. It was my first night there and my first trip ever to Europe. I was a young man of 23 and relatively new in my travel experience, how to get around and what to do. Yes I got lost and the Magical Maze, The Labyrinth that is Venice, with its winding streets, many bridges and narrow alleyways.
I learned a very important travel lesson that night. One of the first things you should ever do as you are in a new city and check into your hotel. While you’re at the desk, make sure to take a couple Business Cards of the hotel. Put one in your wallet or purse immediately, and put another in one of your pockets. If you ever get lost, you can give it to a Taxi Driver (Not in Venice though) and tell him to go here.
Yes, I got lost in Venice. I didn’t feel it at the time, but it’s a quite Wonderful thing to do, getting Lost in Venice.
I found this wonderful little Hotel in 1995, on my special trip to Explore the BACARI (Venetian Wine Bars) of VENICE. I had read a tiny little article about them in the New York Times that peeked my interest and inspired me to open one in New York. I book a trip for 8 days in Venice to explore, feel, experience and find out everything I could about the Wine Bars of Venice (Bacari). And I did just that. With the knowledge of that trip and my many years experience in the restauranat business in New York, I made a business plan, found a partner to join me, and I created the First Ever Bacaro in The United States, called BAR CICHETTI in New York’s Greenwich Village.
Basta !
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SAN GIACOMO
The OLDEST CHURCH in VENICE
Built 1071
At The RIALTO
If You stay at GUERRATO
This is just 200 Feet Away
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The RIALTO MARKET
Over 700 Years Old
If you stay at Albergo Guerrato, you are Literally Several Feet from The RIALTO
You walk out the Door of the hotel, make a right, walk 30 Feet and you are Inside The RIALTO MARKET. It doesn’t get much Better than that.
This restaurant was a Favorite of GIACOMO CASANOVA
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Where CASANOVA Often DINED
and SEDUCED
In the fish market area, in Campo delle Beccarie, there is instead Poste Vecie restaurant open since 1500, where Casanova used to hide away with friends and especially girl friends to enjoy luxurious banquets. The whole area of St. Mark’s Square and especially the old premises, starting from Caffè Florian, have been hunting grounds of the great seducer.
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DO MORI
The erotic tour of Venice cannot exclude the Rialto area and in particular the Sotoportego dei Do Mori where in the tavern of the same name Casanova liked giving the first appointment to his ladies. Who showed up strictly masked.
I had read a little article in The New York Times about Venice, that mention the Bacari (Wine Bars) of Venice, and that’s all it took. Just a little mention (one Paragraph) of these particular type of wine bars of Venice sparked my interest, and I just had to go to Venice and find out as much as I could about them, for I instantly felt that I wanted to open one in New York (which I did).
All four of Martin Scorsese’s grandparents were born in Sicily.
His grandparents on his father’s side, are from Polizzi Generosa, Sicily.
Marty’s grandparents on his mother Catherine side, are from Ciminna. Sicily.
Marty grew up on Elizabeth Street, near Little Italy, NYC, in a mostly
Sicilian neighborhood.
Frank Vincent
as SALVI in Martin Scorsese’s RAGING BULL
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SINATRA
Franks Sinatra’s Father Antonio Martino Severio Sinatra was Born in LERCARA FRIDDI Sicily
he Immigrated to New York and Hoboken, NJ
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LIZA MINNELLI.
Liza Minnelli’s father was Famed Director VINCENT MINELLI
who married JUDY GARLAND (Liza’s Mother). Vincent Minnelli was the Vincent Minelli’s Paternal Grandfather was VINCENZO MINNELLI of Palermo, Sicily who was a SICILIAN REVOLUTIONARY who was forced to leave SICILY in 1848 with his Brother Dominic.
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GRANDMA BELLINO’S COOKBOOK
RECIPES FROM MY SICILIAN NONNO
GIUSEPPINA FROM LERCARA FRIDDI SICILY
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The BELLINO’S
FILLIPO , LUCIA , TONY , GIUSEPPINA SALEMI BELLINO
Missing From Picture are Brothers Jimmy and Frank and Sisiter Lilly
LODI , NEW JERSEY 1940
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FILLIPO BELLINO
Of LERCARA FRIDDI , SICILY
Immigrated to NEW YORK 1904
A few Years Later moved to LODI , NEW JERSEY
Where FILLIPO Opened a SHOEMAKER SHOP on MAIN STREET
FILLIPO was Father to JAMES, LILLY, FRANK, LUCIA, and TONY
Grandfather of Author Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
Author Daniel Bellino-Zwicke
at TEATRO GRECO
SIRACUSA , SICILY
Daniel’s descendants are from Lercara Friddi, Sicily
Yes, you heard it here 1st !!! “The McRib is back, so reports Bestselling Cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke, a Lover of not just Pasta, Burgers, Tacos and Steaks, but this bestselling cookbook author absolutely adores The McRib. He Loves it !!!!
Daniel says his “Love Affair” with The McRib goes back to 1989, and the 1st time he bit into one of these elusive tasty treats, “The McRib” .. He was instantly smitten, and bummed out a couple moths later when McDonalds, cruel people that they are, took it away. Yes they took it away. Off the menu at each and everyone of its thousands of McDonalds restaurants all over America and around the Globe. “Oh cruel people you are.” Daniel says. “Why? Why such cruelness to take away my beloved McRib, a sandwich I love just about as much as any.
“It’s so tasty. You get us Hooked and then you take it away. Such cruelness,” Daniel cries. Why Oh Why do Such a Thing” ? “You take it away. All I can do is cry, and dream of the day you’ll return once again. Even if just a month or two. I’ll take it.It’s better than nothing at all.
Maybe McDonalds is doing people a favour. If it was available all the time, it wouldn’t be so special. People might be a little tired of it, and it would lose its allure and mystique. Yes, I think that is certain. It’s a game now I guess. McDonalds likes playing this game.
The countdown is on for McRib fans.
The The McRib Sandwich is coming back to McDonald’s nationwide for a limited time next month.
“It’s back,” says cookbook author Daniel Bellino Zwicke, a Lover of “The McRib” since 1989, when he had his first McRib Sandwich at the McDonalds on West 57th Street in New York City. Daniel says, that at the time he was The Chef at Corrado Restaurant on 6th Avenue nearby to that McDonalds. Corrado’s was a high-end Italian Restaurant, and though Daniel could eat all kinds of Italian Goodies, like his famed Bolognese Sauce, working doubles some days, he needed to get away from the restaurant for a half hour or so, in order to break up the day. And so he’d bop over to McDonalds and get himself a McRib.
WHAT is a McRIB
The McRib is a Barbecue-Flavored Pork Sandwich that’s periodically sold at McDonald’s. It’s become a cult favorite due to its limited-time appearances and the element of surprise that comes with not knowing when it will return.
Made from pork, water, salt, dextrose and — have your taste buds identified this ingredient? — rosemary extract, the McRib is a pork patty, shaped to resemble a “Rack of Ribs.” It’s served on a bun with Barbecue Sauce, Pickles and Onions.
The sandwich first became available nationwide in 1982 after it made its debut in Kansas City, Kansas in 1981. Credited with its invention: McDonald’s executive chef Rene Arend, who also created Chicken McNuggets in 1979, thanks to developments in restructured meat for the military made by University of Nebraska professor Roger Mandigo.
McRIB TIMELINE :
1981 – The McRib was 1st Introduced in Test Markets.
1985 – The McRib was discontinued after poor sales.
1989 – The McRib was introduced and remained on menus until 20025.
2007 – The McRib sold $30 Million
2020 – The McRib returned after 8 years
2022 – The McRib was brought back for a FAREWLL TOUR. “Yeah ! Right?”
2023 – The McRib returned to selected McDonalds locations around America
2024 – “The McRib is Back” !!! So reported cookbook author Daniel B. Zwicke
Last night on a segment of Thought for Food, comedian Stephen Colbert weighed in on the supposed photo of a frozen McDonald’s McRib sandwich that went viral last month. Colbert has expressed his enthusiasm for the McRib before, and Colbert continues to stand by the faux-scarce novelty sandwich saying, “There’s nothing wrong with the McRib, just because it appears to made out of sickly E.T.” Colbert goes on to explain that eating a McRib — the “great American mystery” — even counts as exercising since it happens to share an ingredient with yoga mats (azodicarbonamide) before coming to the conclusion that ultimately he is a “firm believer that the best food raises more questions than it answers.” In the video below, Colbert also addresses the FDA “foodstapo’s” plan to get rid of a pillar of America’s “Judeo-Crisco” values, trans fats.
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