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POSITANO The AMALFI COAST

TRAVEL GUIDE / COOKBOOK

DANIEL BELLINO ZWICKE 

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Positano The Amalfi Coast Cookbook - Travel Guide is like no other book that has been written on Positano, Naples, and the Amalfi Coast. It’s not just a travel guide. It’s a cookbook / travel guide with essays qne delightful stories of Positano, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast of Italy. The book is designed to educate, inform, and inspire the preparation of your trip to Positano, or anywhere on the Amalfi Coast and its surrounding area, an area that has unmatched beauty anywhere in the world, and one of the primary reasons that millions see a trip to Positano and the Amalfi Coast as the ultimate dream vacation and romantic local for the ultimate Honeymoon or the vacation of a lifetime. It’s also a book that makes you drea, and of dreams that come true.Bestselling Italian Cookbook Author Daniel Bellino Zwicke has crafted this book with stories, recipes, advice, and information on how to prepare for the most memorable vacation trip of your life, whether this is the 1st, second, third, or your tenth time going to this The Divine Coast of Amalfi, Capri, or Napoli. Daniel is no newcomer to the area. He made his first trip to Positano, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast of Italy way back in the Summer of 1985, and has been returning ever since. He has gained a wealth of knowledge of Naples, Capri, and The Amalfi Coast, of which he imparts his wisdom to the readers of this book through the travel guide information, and delightful stories that entertain, inform, and inspire. And as Daniel is a bestselling Italian Cookbook author he has included over 100 regional recipes of Naples, Positano, Sorrento, and the Amalfi Coast. The recipes that he’s gathered (written down) over 35 years, and has put down on paper within the walls of this book, in order for the reader to recreate their most cherished memories of dishes they’ve eaten in Naples, on Capri, at Da Vincenzo, Chez Black, or La Cambusa in Positano. 

Would you like to recreate that charming seafood lunch in the small fishing village of Cetara? You can. You will be able to cook the favorite dish you had on the coast, in Naples, on Capri. The recipes will educate you on the food of the region, nourish you and help you to relive those special memories back home.

So if you’re looking to plan a trip to the Amalfi Coast, cook the food when you’re back home, and to be inspired by the food, the restaurants, hotels, Ancient Roman Ruins, the natural beauty, and warmth of the Italian people, this just might be the book for you. We hope that it is, and would love to tag along on your Special Journey, whether it’s in Positano, Capri, Sorrento, or anywhere in this stunningly beautiful area. “Adiamo” !!!

Note : There are no pictures in this book, just stories, recipes, and a wealth of information. But if you want Beautiful Pictures of Positano & The Amalfi Coast? We have created a Companion Website for this Book with Hundreds of Beautiful Pictures of Positano, Capri, and the Amalfi Coast @ Positano-Amalfi-Coast.com … 

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Daniel Bellino”Bio - Daniel Bellino Zwicke is the Bestselling author of 8 books. He has been a restaurant and Italian Wine Professional in New York for more than 35 years, and has been traveling back and forth to Italy just as long. His book Sunday Sauce was the # 1 Best Selling Italian Cookbook (on Amazon Kindle) for more than two years (also in Paperback). 

Along with being the Wine Director at Barbetta (NYC) and Maitre’d at Da Silvano (NYC), Daniel created America’s 1st ever Venetian Wine Bar “Bar Cichetti” in 1997, where he was the Chef, Wine Director, and managing partner. Daniel lives and writes in Greenwich Village, New York, NY, and is currently working on several new projects.

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Jay Fai Famous Crab Omelette Bangkok

 

Jay Fai

Raan Jay Fai

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Bangkok is legendary for its fun and its food. Especially its street food. And one vendor's is so good, it has earned a Michelin star for the second year running. Raan Jay Fai is a small, seven-table joint in Old Bangkok that'd be easy to miss if it weren't for the line. There's always a line.

You can try to make a reservation, but the place — named after its chef/owner, a local legend — is usually booked a month or two out. Signing up for the walk-in list is the best bet for many, especially tourists. But you need to get there early.

"I got here at 7:30 [a.m.]," says 24-year old Kashmira Velji, from Austin, Texas, who was determined to try Jay Fai after viewing the chef's star turn on the recent Netflix special Street Food. Never mind that the restaurant doesn't open for lunch until 2 p.m.

"Everybody we've met on this trip, nobody we've talked to who's been here actually made it inside to eat," she says. "They told us that they'd gotten here at 9 or 10 [a.m.], that they'd been number 30 on the list and they couldn't wait that long to get food. So I was like, we're showing up [early] and we're getting a table."

The CRAB OMELETTE

by Jay Fai

It worked. Getting there at 7:30 a.m. made Velji and her friend, Ana Wong, first on the walk-in list. Seven hours later, they were biting into Jay Fai's signature khai jeaw poo, or crab omelette.

"I've never had anything like this before," Velji says between bites. "I'm not making it up, I'm not exaggerating, it's actually amazing. Like, it's light and airy but it's also ... hardy," she says, somewhat puzzled. "Our first bites were very intense. We kind of just stayed silent and were in shock at how good it tastes."

Suparat Tretachayakorn — a doctor — isn't shocked at all. He's a regular. And the crab omelette is one of his go-to dishes.

"It's pure joy," he says. He's here with a few colleagues who've just polished off not one but two of the crab omelettes, each stuffed with roughly a pound of crab meat.

"It's so fresh, and it's a really big lump," he says. "And the way that she fried it, it's not very oily, it's not greasy at all. When you cut it open, it just oozes this creaminess inside and you go 'wow.' It's unbelievable."

He and his friends have also ordered Jay Fai's famous tom yum soup, and half a dozen other dishes. Tom yum is a Thai staple — made with shrimp, lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime leaves, chilies, garlic and mushrooms — and it's found almost everywhere. But that doesn't mean it's always good.

Crab Omelette

"Actually, I don't normally order tom yum because I know that I'm going to be disappointed at most places," he says. "It's very difficult to execute well, very difficult to do it justice like this," he says. "The one here I order every time."

And Jay Fai appears to have defied logic with something she calls dry tom yum. It's another of her signature dishes. One that's got the visitor from Austin, Velji, baffled. In a good way.

"It tastes just like the soup, but it's dry," she says. "It's exactly the same flavors of the tom yum soup, but instead of slurping it, I'm chewing it and I'm still getting all those sour, spicy flavors," she says. I ask her how that's possible. She shakes her head. "She's magic, man. I don't know. She's got a special power. She's superhuman."

Her friend, Wong, — who had been skeptical a little earlier (remember the seven-hour wait?) — isn't anymore. The two have managed to finish a crab omelette, the dry tom yum and a plate of drunken noodles.

"There are no words to describe it. I mean, it's amazing," she says. "Just different flavors not overpowering one another — you can taste each one of them. "It's impressive. I give it a 10!"

"I give it a 15!" Velji interjects. She's not feeling at all foolish about getting here so early — which she had felt just a few hours ago.

"Now, I'm just looking at all these people lined up outside," Velji says. "We have the best seats. We have the best food. Everybody out there is staring at us, and we're in here enjoying the best meal we'll probably ever have," she says, motioning to the 30 or so people waiting outside in the blistering heat. "We're smart girls to show up that early. We're doers."

And part of the fun, they both say, is watching the maestro at work. The 74-year-old Jay Fai cooks everything herself — over two blazing charcoal fires, in the alley next to the busy street, while patrons snap pictures of her from a distance.

She wears a wool cap, a gray camouflage shirt with a long black apron and huge safety goggles to ward off the heat and fire. She is a dervish who barks orders to her underlings, who are quick to bring her whatever she asks. Ingredients for the next dish. Fresh woks to cook with. And more charcoal — always more charcoal — to keep the heat consistent.

"It's faster to cook when using charcoal, to stir-fry vegetables," Jay Fai says. "The charcoal makes everything very hot very quickly. Just don't put too much oil," she warns. "Put lots of chicken broth. The vegetables will be crispy and fresh and taste good."

And Jay Fai is a perfectionist — so much so that she doesn't let anyone else on her staff do the cooking. That's another reason why it takes so long to get your food here — even with reservations.

"They can't do it. This is very hard to do," she says. "It's not that I don't want them to do it, I do. But even when they watch me, they can't remember anything." And it's not just her staff she doubts. "The new generation, I can tell you, they can't do it to my level. I do things quickly and keep the quality good, too," she says.

Her real name is Supinya Jansuta, but everyone calls her Jay Fai. It roughly translates to "Sister Mole," a reference to a birthmark next to her nose. She says she learned to cook from her mom, who sold noodle soup with pork and chicken.

"To be a cook, you need skill. I didn't go to school, but I lived and cooked with my parents. When we went out to eat in a restaurant," she says, "I would watch them cook and taste the food, poke it around the plate and look at what ingredients they were using. Then I came back to experiment at home."

Eventually she started her own business, relentlessly sampling other people's food in order to adapt it, she says. To make it better — and to make it her own.

"I tried to cook every night after I closed the restaurant," she says. "I experimented until I got a dish right, to make a dish people wanted."

In the process, she decided to switch things up, forgoing the usual street food ingredients for the highest-quality ingredients possible — especially seafood. And she charged a lot more for it in the process.

Some told her it wouldn't work. She didn't listen. And her business grew. Fast. Enough for her to buy the shop house where she's been cooking for the past 40 years. She starts cooking as soon as the restaurant opens and doesn't stop until it closes well after midnight.

And about that Michelin star: When she got the first phone call, she kind of blew them off. By accident.

"I was confused," she says. "They said they wanted to invite me to an event, a gala dinner, and I said, 'Oh, my, a gala dinner, no thank you. I don't want to go. What would I wear?' "

They called again. She politely declined again. The third time they called, she gave the phone to her daughter, who immediately understood why they were calling and told her mother she had to go. Which she did, though she had to be helped to the stage when her name was called. "I stood there dumbfounded," she says. "They asked me how I felt and I said, 'I'm in shock.' "

She's grumbled about it a bit since — about the crowds that have come with the fame. But she says she's happy.

"To be honest, it was the high point of my life. If I die now, if anything happens now, I'm OK with it. I'll die peacefully."

Jay Fai says her daughter wants her to quit cooking soon. She's not sure she can.

"This is my passion," she says. "And my art." The thought of seeing Jay Fai hang up her goggles and apron terrifies her Thai regulars like Suparat.

"The last time I talked to her, she said that she was admitted to the hospital and she was actually afraid she could not come back and work here anymore," he says. "I would say selfishly, I hope that she could go on and on. I don't know how many years," he says. "But I just hope as long as possible. This is something I cherish. I love street food. And this is the quintessential street food of Bangkok," he insists. "I can say 100% it is not hype. It's that good."

But it ain't cheap. A three-dish meal here can set you back about $75, in a country where you can get a decent meal on the street for less than $2. And there's been some sniping about it online. "This is something that upsets me quite a lot," Suparat says. "I can guarantee you most of them have never come here. If they had, they would not complain."

The two young women from Texas aren't complaining. "It was worth it 100%," Velji says. "This is probably going to be the cheapest Michelin star meal we'll ever have." Wong agrees completely. "In the United States, we pay $75 to go out on a Saturday night and it's not even memorable," she says.

"Totally worth it," Velji says of waiting seven hours to sit and eat. "That sounds embarrassing, but yes, it was."

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Caffe Reggio

Greenwich Village, New York

REMINISCING 

  I was sitting there at Caffe Reggio. It’s an old Caffe in Greenwich Village, New York, once the World Center of Bohemia, the Beats and Beatniks. Now? I don’t know what it is now, other than despite the neighborhood going down as a result of greedy New York Landlords that keep raising the price of rents to ridiculously absurd price-points, where only the rich can afford them. Mostly all all the cool old restaurants, cafes, funky boutiques, and record shops have mostly all been pushed out of their stores by insanely high commercial rents that barley anyone can afford. It’s the same for commercial spaces and apartments, people just can’t afford them. Except the rich. But this is not what this is about. How the hell did I go off on that tangent? Oh yeah, I was talking about Caffe Reggio.

  Thankfully there are a few good old restaurants, cafes, and nightclubs left, Caffe Reggio is one, merely because the owner of Caffe Reggio (Maurizio) owns the building that he inherited from his father. Lucky him, and lucky us that he owns the building, he loves his historical caffe and has no intention of ever closing it. Who knows what will happen one day when he is gone. Hopefully that day is quite a long way off. It’s a long way off since the time that I, as a young boy of 16 first walked into Caffe Reggio way back in 1974. I was still living in Jersey back then. I was into photography (a hobby) and I used to love hopping on a bus in Carlstadt, New Jersey, and heading into the city (New York, NY). I had always loved the City, ever since the first few times my dad drove in, and we were there, New York City. The place was electrifying to me, a young boy from Jersey, and growing up in 1960’s and 70’s America. I was into all sorts of things as a boy. I loved all sports, and played baseball, basketball, and football all the time. And I do mean a lot. And if I wasn’t watchinging one of the 3 major sports of America, I was watching them on TV, the Met’s, the Yankees, the New York Football Giants, The Olympics, and every Saturday at 4 o’clock for years, I watched ABC’s Wide World of Sports with Jim McKay, Howard Cossell, Frank Gifford, Curt Gowdy, and others. They had all sorts of sports that they broadcasted and I loved them all, from: Boxing, to Skiing, Car Racing, Demolition Derby’s and more.

   I loved music, listening to the radio, playing with my friends, watching TV, and going for rides in the car with my Dad. My childhood wasn’t always easy, my mother was mentally ill, and my parents had spit up when we were very young. No it wasn’t always easy, but I was a dreamer and dreamt of big things in my future, and I was always full of hope for things I might achieve. 

    Let me get back to Caffe Reggio. Well very briefly, I’ll keep it short. As I’ve said, I loved photography, so I loved as a teeanager, hopping on the # 35 Bus and going into the city. The bus would take me into The Port Authority Bus Terminal, and I’d make my way down the escalators to the subway, and hop on an A Train that would take me down to Greenwich Village, where I loved hanging out at Washington Square Park, watching all the street performers (Musicians, jugglers, etc.) and taking pictures with my 35mm Camera, and just having a good time. After I hung out in the park for a couple hours, I’d walk around the Village a bit, shooting some shots and making discoveries. Then I’d head over to Caffe Reggio for my Cappuccino, sit there relaxing, dreaming, and watching the world go by. I just loved it. I thought I was cool. And guess what? I was. Sometimes I’d go to The Riviera Cafe for a bowl of Chili, and to hang out. Again, just watching the world go by. Just a couple blocks from the park, there was a place I loved, called The Unique Clothing Warehouse, that sold cheap funky clothes, some army surplus, and all sorts of funky things that a teenager in the 70s would love. I did. The first thing I ever bought there was  a small Norwegian Army canvas bag for just $1.99, I loved it. It was just the right size to put my camera, a pen, small writing pad, and a few other things into.

  Long before my teenage forays into Greenwich Village I dreamed of moving to New York City one day. And in particular, I dreamed of living in Greenwich Village. And guess what? I did.

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to be Continued ....

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Phillipe Petit Walks on a tight Rope between The TWIN TOWERS

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New York City

August 7, 1974

Phillipe Petit TWIN TOWERS Tight Rope Walk

Petit became known to New Yorkers in the early 1970s for his frequent tightrope-walking performances and magic shows in the city parks, especially Washington Square Park. Petit's most famous performance was in August 1974, conducted on a wire between the roofs of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, New York City, USA, 400 metres (1,312 feet) above the ground. The towers were still under construction and had not yet been fully occupied. He performed for 45 minutes, making eight passes along the wire, during which he walked, danced, lay down on the wire, and saluted watchers from a kneeling position. Office workers, construction crews and policemen cheered him on.

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View from LIDO la SCOGLIERA Beach Club by Music on The Rocks

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"This is my own personal Favorite Beach in Positano"

Lido la Scogliera and Music on The Rocks

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La SCOGLIERA

Ever since my first visit to Positano in 1985, I have always loved spending a day at Lido la Scogliera Beach Club in Positano. It makes me feel like a King. I rent my Chaise Lounge, sit back and relax, enjoying the wonderful Amalfi Coast Sun and the surrounding town of Positano as it springs from the Sea, high up into the Latteri Mountains of Southern Italy. I'd sit back and relax just enjoying the gorgeous view and those special beach sounds of back ground music and people chattering away. Normally I'm not a beach person, but whenever in Positano or the lovely Isle of Capri, I just love to swim and I do quite a bit in both locals, swimming around for 15 or 20 minutes at a time, and a total of well over an hour in the water each day I'm here.

It's not cheap renting a spot here during the day, but it's well worth it, and I've always felt as it was a special treat to myself whenever I did. If I'm in Positano for a few days, I'll alternate between spending the day at Lido Scogliera and the free beach at Fornillo which is quite nice as well. 

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Arienzo Beach

Arienzo Beach is another nice option for a day at the beach. There is both a free public and a private beach where a spot with a Chaise Lounge Beach Chair cost between 15 and 20 Euros. You can either take a shuttle boat from the center of Positano at Marina Grande where all the boats are, or you can walk down the more than 200 stairs from the road above. The restaurant at the Bagni Arienzo Beach Club serves very good food, including Salads, Antipasti, Pasta, and Fresh Seafood.

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Spiaggi Grande

The Main Beach of Positano

Spiaggi Grande is the main beacch of Positano. Most of the beach is private, with beach chair placement running about 20 Euros per person. There is a small free public beach where you can put down your blanket or beach mat and enjoy yourself for free, though we recommend spending the extra cash and goignt to the private beach at Lido Scogliera (20 Euro). If you can't afford the 20 Euro, you are much better off going to the free section of Formillo Beach, it's much nicer than the free section of Spiaggi Grande. Basta.

Fornillo Beach is a Great Spot with Several Nice Bars and Restaurants

There are 3 Private Beaches at Fornillo Beach and one Public Beach that is a  Free Beach. If you look at this picture, the Free Beach is at the far end, and is quite nice, and is much nicer than the Free Beach at Spiaggi Grande in the center of town. To get to Fornillo (Furnace) Beach, if you are down by the by where all the Ferry Boats arrive and depart at, and by the ticket windows for the boats. The Hotel Covo die Saraceni is the large hotel right there by the water. If you have your back to the Sea and are looking at this hotel, over to the left you will find the pathway that leads to Fornillo Beach. Hop on the path and start walking, it is a nice little walk that's last than 10 minutes and you'll be there to pick the beach of your choice.

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