Frank Sinatra's Favorite Italian Food Dishes

  Frank Sinatra, both the greatest singer and greatest entertainer of the 20th Century. No question. Sinatra was a legendary icon whose star still shines bright. He was a musical icon, celebrity, international personality, and to millions of Italian-Americans he was our own, a paisan. Frank was an Italian-American whose ancestry is from Genoa on his mother's side of the family and Sicilian on his father's side. And being Italian, Frank loved the food he grew up with, Dolly made a mean Marianara Sauce as well as Meatballs and the all-time Italian-American favorite Sunday Sauce (aka Gravy). Frank loved the food of his childhood; the Spaghetti & Meatballs, Stuffed Artichokes, Pasta Fazool, Frittata, Eggplant Parmigiana and all the usual suspects of the Italian-American table. It's a well known fact that Frank's favorite restaurant was Patsy's on 56th Street in New York ... When Frank went to Patsy's his favorite dishes were Calms Posillipo and Veal Milanese with a nice plate of Spaghetti Pomodoro in-between, and maybe a slice of Cheesecake to finish if Frank was in the mood.        

FRANK'S FAVORITE RESTAURANT

Patsy's 56th Street, NEW YORK, NY

   

Learn How to Make FRANK'S VEAL MILANESE

VEAL MILANESE and CALMS POSILLIPO .. Two of FRANK'S Favorites

     

Frank tosses the Spaghetti

     

Dean Martin with Frank as Sammy Davis Jr pours Frank a Jack Daniels

     

Frank Sinatra dines with Marylyn Monroe

.

.

Frank Sinatra with Lauren Bacall at 21 Club , NEW YORK

.

Gnocchi Pomodoro

.

.

Frank Sinatra 's Egg Sandwiches

JILLY'S

Frank at Jilly's with friends and daughters Nancy and Tina ..

One of Frank's favorite spots when in New York was owned by one of his closest friends (and Bodyguard) Jilly Rizzo .. Jilly's served Chinese Food and Franks's favorite was their Chicken Chowmein .. Frank threw many parties there, eating, drinking, telling stories and what-not.

.

.

Frank Eats a Donut

GINO'S on Lexington Avenue was a Sinatra favorite ..

A waiter and the famed Zebra Wallpaper of Gino's ..

PJ CLARKE'S

One of Frank's favorite Bars ..

Learn How to Make SUNDAY SAUCE alla SINATRA

and SPAGHETTI MEATBALLS all SINATRA

Recipes in SUNDAY SAUCE by Daniel Bellino

.

.

.

 

Remembering Bruno Kirby n Robin Williams

Robin Williams

as DJ ADRIAN KRONE

WONDERFUL WORLD

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

From GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

SATCHMO

The GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG

The brilliance of ROBIN WILLIAMS as DJ ANDRIAN CRONAUER

in GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

ROBIN WILLIAMS

BEST SCENES iN GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

BARRY LEVINSON'S

GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

Starring ROBIN WILLIAMNS

FOREST WHITAKER

BRUNO KIRBY

REST IN PEACE ROBIN & BRUNO

BRUNO KIRBY

with Forest Whitaker & Robin Williams

in a Scene from GOOD MORNING VIETNAM

.

BRUNO KIRBY & ROBERT DiNERO

in THE GODFATHER II

Bruno was a wonderful New York character actor ... He played the young Peter Clemenza in Francis Ford Coppola's GODFATHER Part II .. He had a great role as Seargent Steven Hawke in Good Morning Vietnam, he was Billy Crystal's best friend in CITY SLICKERS, he was in The Freshman with Marlon Brando and in many other roles over the years .. Sadly we lost Bruno much to soon when he died of complications of Leukemia in 2006 at the age of 57 .. I was fortunate to have met Bruno and to hang out with him a few times, as he was a good friend of my friend Joe M ... Bruno was a wonderful person and is greatly missed. May God Bless Your Wonderful Soul Dear BRUNO ... RIP

R.I.P. BRUNO