Have You Been to Ischia

 

Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke

BACK on CAPRI

NAPLES and The AMALFI COAST

 

 

 

My ESPRESSO

 

BAR DUE GULFI

 

CAPRI

 

 

 

Stopped in here for an Espresso, so I could use the bathroom and change into my swim trunks to go swimming at Marina Picolo. If you want to go swimming at Marina Picolo, the best way to get there is to take a little town bus to Due Gulfi (Two Gulfs). Get off the bus, and ask one of the locals where the pathway is to Marina Picolo. It's a great little walk (10 minutes), with nice sights to see as you stroll down to the beach. You have options of paying  for a chaise-lounge at a private beach club, or better yet, there is a free beach that's awesome. I never pay when swimming at Marina Picolo and always opt for the free beach, which is wonderful. I reserve saving my money for when I go swimming at Da Luigi Beach Club at the Faraglioni Rocks. It's gorgeous!

ISCHIA

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Catch of The Day

 

 

I was lucky to catch these two Fishermen bringing in their fresh Catch of The Day, as locals were at the dock to buy the freshest fish humanly possible, directly from these two fine gentlemen, who had a scale on board to weight the fish. This was quite awesome to witness, and was one of the highlights of my trip.

These fishermen had quite a good variety of several different kinds of local fish, and their were about 6 local men there to buy fish from them. It was quite an animated scene as thee fishermen quoted prices of the various fish, and the buyers argued with them over the price, and the two sides bickered back and forth before a final sale was mad.. It was all in good fun, and I totally enjoyed the show.

 

 

 

 

 

A PERFECT PLATE of SPAGHETTI POMODORO

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A TRATTORIA in ISCHIA

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RECIPE

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My Hotel in Ischia

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Hotel Villa Melodie

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The POOL at The HOTEL VILLA MELODIE ... ISCHIA

If You're Looking for a Nice affordable Hotel that has a Great POOL

The HOTEL VILLA MELODIE in FORIO , ISCHIA is a Great Choice

"I Just Loved It"

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Orange  Juice Guy

Sant Angelo , Ischia

This Guy makes the Best Dam Fresh Squeezed OJ Ever !!!

Awesome LEMONADE Too !!

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Procida

View From The Top

Looking to Monte Procida and Sorrento

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Lunch at La Piazzetta Trattoria / Pizzeria

PROCIDA

ALICI FRITTI & a Glass of BIANCOLELLA

This was one of my Favorite Dishes of The Trip, "Absolutely Delicious" 

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RECIPES

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COOKING ITALIAN

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GREATEST HITS COOKBOOK

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RECIPES of NAPLES & The AMALFI COAST ITALY

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RECIPE SPAGHETTI TOMATO SAUCE

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Looking Down to Marian rand Capri

From Top of The Phoenician Stairs in Anacapri

Photo Copyright Daniel B. Zwicke

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My Old Stomping Grounds in Capri

The Hotel La Palma

A Wonderful Hotel with Reasonable Prices

And a Great Location in Capri

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Capri Montage

Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke in CAPRI

Espresso, Da Luigi Beacch Club at The Faraglioni Rocks (Daniel's Favorite Beach)

Shuttle Boat at Da Luigi to Marina Picolo, Marina Picolo, Chapel at Marina Picolo

At Marina Picolo looking to the famed FARAGLIONO ROCKS of CAPRI

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Virgin Mary

ISCHIA

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Gaetano making me a Perfect ESPRESSO

 

HOTEL PLAZA

 

SALERNO

 

 

The Hotel Plaza in Salerno s a wonderful hotel. The location is great, being across the from the Train Station and just 3 blocks from the marine terminal where you can catch Ferry Boats to Capri, Sorrento, Ischia, Positano, Amalfi, Cetara, and all points on the Amalfi Coast. You can catch trains to Naples and be there in just 30 minutes.

 

Gaetano whose family owns and runs the hotel is an absolute Gem. Love that guy. He is so very kind and hospitable and wil make you feel like family, and if you get to know him, you will might be lucky to have him make you a perfect Espresso personally on his prized Espresso machine that he loves dearly. I was so lucky for this, but most of all, I was so fortunate to have a few lovely conversation with Gaetano, he is as I have said a gem, and I will cherish and always remember spending a little time with him and having those nice conversations. "Thank you Gaetano, you made my stay at your family's hotel in Salerno so very special.

 

 

 

 

GAETANO Makes Me ESPRESSO

 

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EATING WATERMELON in NAPLES , ITALY

 

NAPOLI

 

 

These Guys Invited Me into Their Little Party at their FRUIT STAND in NAPOLI

 

We ate WATERMELON and Drank LYCRIMA CHRIST WINE

 

 

"I Had a Great Time

 

One of the HIGHLIGHTS of my TRIP

My PIZZA

 

Di MATTEO

 

NAPOLI

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PIZZERIA Di MATTEO NAPLES  

  PIZZA L,ARCHETTO SALERNO 

 

BACK in POSITANO

August 2019

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Positano

Walking up the Via Pasitea

La TOSCA

CAPRI

La TOSCA is a nice little hotel behind the Quissisana. I first stayed here in 1986 when it was just a modest little pensione and one of the most affordable places to stay in Capritown, Capri, at just about $40. It is still owned by the same family, but is now new a more upscale little boutique hotel. It is situated in one of thee nicest parts of Capri, behind the Quissisana, the Carthusian Monastery, and by the Gardens of Caeser Augustus.

BARMEN

CAFFE GAMBRINUS

NAPOLI

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My CAFFE GAMBRINUS

"HOUSE SPECIAL COFFEE"

At CAFFE GAMBRINUS

NAPOLI

Caffe Gambrinus is a historical Italian caffe in Central Naples at the Piazza Trieste near the grand Piazza Plebiscito. The Caffe is decorated in the Grand Art Nouveau style, and was founded in 1860 by Vincenzo Apuzzo. The caffe serves traditional Neapolitan Espresso, Cappuccino and their House Specialty Caffe Gambrinus coffee.

"Most Famous COFFEE in ITALY"

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View From PENSIONE MARIA LUISA

One of the most affordable places in POSITANO

The AMALFI COST

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Mario & Esperanza

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Me & Mario

Hanging at The Pool of The Hotel Poseidon

POSITANO , ITALY

August 9, 2019

Swimming and Drinking Aperol Spritz 's

All Afternoon

Me Mario and his Wife Esperanza had a great Day

Probably the # 1 Highlight of my entire Trip

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Holding Up The Hill

POSITANO

2019

AMARI

At BAR MONZU

ISCHIA PONTE

Summer 2019

I had a great time twice in one day at this awesome little bar in Ischia Ponte, Ischia, Italy. I was going to the Aragonese Castel nearby and came across this cute little Italian Bar, right after I had a great few moments watch ( and filming) a couple local Fishermen bringing in their catch of the day. I had to go to the bathroom so I went into Monzu to get an Espresso. I told them I needed to use thee bagno first, and I did, then came out and got a wonderful demi tasse of that great Italian Espresso coffee (Worlds Best). The I made my way to the castel and had a great half day there, with beautiful views of Ischia and Ischia Ponte, along with some great local history. .

Me t PIAZZA del POPOLO

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HOTEL MELODIE

ISCHIA

I nice little Hotel at very reasonable rates. The hotel is in Forio ISCHIA , as you can see, they have a wonderful pool, nice clean rooms, and a tasty 

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Angels Share Re-Opens - West Village NYC

 

ANGEL'S SHARE  "Re-Opens"

45 Grave Street

GREENWICH VILLAGE , NY

ANGEL'S HARE which opened in The East Village of New York City, was at the forefront of the New Cocktail Lounge Movement of the past 25 years. It was one of the first, and was sort of a secret hidden "Word of Mouth" Speakeasy Cocktail Lounge. 

After a good long run, the establsihment lost their Lease and closed in March of 2022. While the wonders were looking for a space to re-open the popular cocktail lounge, they operated as a 

Pop Up Cocktail Lounge in The Hotel Eventi on 6th Avenue at 30th Street. They found a great new space, and have re-opened the new Angel's Share at 45 Grove Street.

Basta ! That's all for now. Caio !

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Diner Coffee

 

COFFEE

Thw ICONIC GREEK DINER COFFEE CUP

It can be hard to remember, but coffee isn’t just a delicious liquid drug — at its most basic level, it’s a plant that people sow, grow, and harvest. There are plenty of kinds of coffee, too, and none as significant on the global market as coffee canephora, also known as robusta. That’s one of the hardiest, most caffeinated varieties of coffee. And while its counterpart arabica gets more attention for having a wider flavor profile, robusta is far less likely to be classified as “specialty” coffee. Both kinds’ global popularity is thanks to Europe’s carving up of coffee-growing regions such as East Africa and Southeast Asia for export: The Dutch taking coffee to Indonesia and enslaving locals is how we got the now-common term “java,” for example.

Political theorist Carl Schmitt called such adventures in mercantilism the beginning of the “Eurocentric nomos of the Earth” — he’d know, given his support of the Nazi party. Thanks to coloniality, numerous commodities like coffee became associated with Europe. In brief, naval travel and military technology allowed Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch conquerors to leverage the addictive crop as one more line item in a growing global ledger. Propaganda supported the expansion. There was Edwin Lester Linden Arnold’s handbook for coffee growing in 1886, published one year after the Berlin Conference began cutting up Africa into new districts, and J.W.B. Money’s Java; or, How to Manage a Colony. Both treat the people harvesting large-commodity crops including coffee as inferior, which means coffee and subjugation go hand in hand.

The next generation of imperialists including the young United States took to these lessons and examples to enslave people the world over for their own sugar, spice, tea, and coffee. Take the Belgians’ colonization of the Congo in the late 1800s, a premier region for rubber and robusta coffee. It was the Belgians who named robusta coffee as such due to its “robust” resilience to pestilence. Locals were worked to death, often from exhaustion but also from acts of violence at the hands of Belgian exporters and guards. And, as Adam Hochschild writes in King Leopold’s Ghost, Africans were not to be paid in francs for their labor, instead receiving cloth, beads, and brass rods. “Money in free circulation might undermine what was essentially a command economy,” Hochschild writes.

The impacts of these actions live on. Burundi — also colonized by Europe — is today one of, if not the, poorest country in the world and depends heavily on coffee exports. According to Standart magazine, the government tightly controls seed allowances, pays farmers only once or twice a year, and mandates that farmers sell their coffee as a low-grade commodity rather than a specialty. Vietnam, which has suffered numerous invasions over generations, is the second-largest coffee producer behind Brazil. And El Salvador’s political unrest and civil war in the 1980s can be traced back to the early occupation of coffee barons, including James Hill, an English businessman who became one of the country’s most infamous coffee oligarchs.

Mickey's Diner

MINNESOTA

Diner coffee touches our road-weary souls in ways nothing else can — that cheap cup of bitter black brew occupies the nexus of all things nostalgic, familiar, and Americana.

No matter the ruination, the United States was eager for coffee to become part of its social fabric from the jump, and ingrained it has become. There’s evidence that suggests that coffee came to the East Coast in 1607 with English captain John Smith, and the drink became a backbone of the young new empire. A few centuries later, around the middle of the 20th century, the coffee break became a thing thanks to a greedy tie factory owner in Denver. In 1962, the International Coffee Agreements was established — actually a stabilizing move thanks to mandatory quotas on coffee imports — only to be blown up in 1989 amid market share disputes among producers and changing consumer tastes. Through it all, coffee burrowed deeper and deeper into the United States’ psyche.

Which is to say, diner coffee is, really, the improbable marriage of low prices and a hungry market. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, the first attempt at a diner came from Providence, Rhode Island, in 1872 in the form of a horse-drawn wagon serving cheap, hot food to people looking for late-night eats. And by 1924, the name for the “rolling restaurants” and “dining cars” became shortened to diner. As these casual restaurants multiplied (long before anything was even considered “ethical” or “fair trade certified”), coffee emerged as a cheap, on-demand menu staple. That coffee became part and parcel of Americana is thanks to these historical events, the rise of restaurants in the country writ large, and, of course, public relations. See: Denny’s partnership with Major League Baseball, chimerically combining the dark elixir, baseball, and Americana on color TV.

With the rise of Equal Exchange and fair trade certification in the 1980s and the proliferation of coffee chains around the world that have fueled consumer tastes for ever-higher quality products, coffee is continuing to evolve. As of 2023, Fairtrade International upped its minimum purchase per pound for certified coffee to $1.80, coffee workers at Starbucks and Peet’s locations throughout the country are unionizing for better pay and conditions, and fourth-wave coffee, with all of its possibilities, is either just over the horizon or already here (depending on whom you ask). But diner coffee, and the low-quality sourcing and methods used in its production, falls well outside of all that progress. It’s a relic in time, an artifact of an America not unlike the restaurants it’s poured in that are still somehow super cheap.

In truth, diner coffee can’t really change. There’s virtually no demand for that coffee to taste better, and supply for the commodity-grade staple is as abundant (for now) as it is unethical. As Michael Pollan might prescribe, drink coffee you can trace, drink only as much as you can afford to buy that is thoughtfully sourced, and buy mostly from small and direct-purchasing farms. But as the botanist also concedes, sometimes you still crave an Oreo.

The BENDIX DINER

Hasbouk Heights, New Jersey

On a spring afternoon in Sedona, Arizona, the Coffee Pot Restaurant is somehow as busy as many diners would hope to be during the morning rush. Servers in bright red T-shirts and aprons chat beneath southwestern motifs and rockscape paintings. Hiking through Red Rock State Park just outside of town can really sap your energy. So while there are vortexes that might refill that void, a damn fine cup of coffee also does the job. 

But for all the health-focused marketing throughout the touristy town, Sedona hosts more places to get your aura photo taken than cafes with transparently sourced, fairly purchased coffee. So, Coffee Pot’s $3.75 cup of coffee will have to do.

No, it isn’t good for the planet. Or, most likely, for workers. But when there’s nothing much better around, and when the nostalgia hits, a cup of jet-black, bitter diner coffee remains an affordable, bottomless delight.

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 # 1   LIKE A ROLLING STONE  - Bob Dylan

# 2    SATISFACTION  -  The ROLLING STONES

# 3    IMAGINE  - John Lennon 

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