Frank Prisinzano

#LiveRagu I’m going to do #InstagramLive soon and field your questions about the #RaguMethod that is unfolding right now on #RealFrankStories Think now about what you want to ask me We are in a holding pattern as the meats slowly stew together in the tomato sauce At around 6pm tonight (EST) we will start putting the finishing touches on the #Ragu At around 7pm we will be serving it depending on how long the #meats take before they start to fall off the #bones #MethodNoRecipe #LetsFlow #TakeNotes #ChezFrank #TeachingYouToFish (at NoHo, Manhattan) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BvZrTn3lM4g/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ktscep4a6ac

#RaguSunday When my kids started talking I restarted a very old #familytradition of always making #Ragu on Sunday’s, but no pre-planning anything, just seeing who’s around that day to spontaneously come over I literally send texts out “Ragu? Who’s in? “ And I look at the meal completely from a peasant standpoint, I’m making pasta, that’s it, I’m using whatever I got and you’re gonna love it I make it easy on me so it never feels like a production to anyone else The result is a calm environment where everyone makes themselves at home and I can relax even though I’m technically pulling off an event and cooking for 20 people That’s how a real #FamilyMeal should feel, like everyone is actually home, and we are all hosts #MethodTwo #NaplesRagu #ThisSunday #StayTuned #SignatureDish #RigatoniRagu #TeachingYouToFish #FeedingYouForLife (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BvVWDN8FrlG/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gfm15h1njhyl

They’re gone All the methods It’s real All that work I did, all those posts explaining everything, gone Gone for me to. I didn’t save them. I dont want them. They don’t represent today. They need to go away. Cooking can’t stagnate There are only few scant seconds before you execute food Only these intangibles, these secret nothings matter Until it comes together and the moment is frozen on the plate forever Eat it now, never look back Every time you cook you freeze time #TheGarlicAndOilMethod #WillReturn (at Manhattan, New York) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BvK38SolBS8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wagrb4ryinx3

The Sun, the Universe and @LilFrankies Many of you won’t remember this because it goes back to the first months of #LilFrankies when we only had the oven side and no other kitchen Well, matter of fact we also had an entire floor airbrushed universe With planets and stars With comets and galaxies But due to an imperfect sealing process it all just chipped off and blew away I cried for years without my universe Such a morbid feeling when art is destroyed Well my mourning is officially over And we are working on a new universe To bring @LilFrankies back to its original form Of what I dreamed a #pizzaplace should be #TheStoryOfLilFrankies #IBuiltitForMe #CauseILovePizza #AndWhimsical (at Lil' Frankie's) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BvDcY1QFun9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5k0b0wzquo1z

#TropicalSmiles (at Jamaica) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/Bu1uWWAFWKL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=y0tq4tprmpks

The #LambBolognese at @LilFrankies #Lamb really does turn a meat sauce up to the highest volume Def not for the faint of heart You must love #meat #SpecialitiesOfTheHouse #InTheWeeklyRotation #CheckTheSpecials #Daily #Online Posted at 5pm everyday at all three of my restaurants LilFrankies.com SupperRestaurant.com FrankRestaurant.com Click on the menu tab and pick from the drop down menu (at Lil' Frankie's) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/Bucw3m6lCPe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vjle9aff4iun

#FlavorTransportation I dare you not to be #teleported directly to #Capri emotionally with every bite of taut milky nutty #mozzarella di bufala I beseech you to rip a piece of #basil, stab a piece of #tomato and hoard a hunk of #cheese Put it all on the fork and dredge it through the #oliveoil then surf the wormhole through time itself until you are sitting on a Capri cliff, #wind in your hair, #sea mist in the air as you jump into the #Mediterranean Pull your head above water and look immediately into the sky, breathe and sigh #FoodTeleportsYou #YouOnlyNeedToCloseYourEyes #InsalataCaprese #Perfection #Poetic (at Supper Restaurant) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BubD80eFr3v/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1tuyln7q40j43

#Flavor is like light it’s like a wave It’s particles and an eventualities It vibrates it pulsates it enchants And some of it can be under control When you start to feel the science You start to feel the sure thing You start to predict the eventualities You start to vibrate the flavors You learn to layer the textures Hopefully you can reach enchantment Hopefully you can be like light Cooking at the speed of flavor Flavor at the speed of light Think it do it I am a #lightningstrike #TheSignalsYouSend #WhenYouChoseToFeed #TeachingYouToFish #EnvisionFlavor #AsYouEnvisionLight #OneHundredEightSixThousandMilesPerSecond #CookAtTheSpeedOfLight (at Miami Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BuWNp6mls8J/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qfn0jgbvzahj

@SunPathHouse is in @OceanDriveMag this month My journey with this house started in #1976 when my parents told my stubborn 10yr old ass that I couldn’t build a #treehouse in our backyard because it would be TOO UGLY I’ve never been very good with no. No sucks So for 30yrs it festered and festered in my dreams until 2006 when I found this old beat down charming little #SpanishBungalow in #MiamiBeach with a huge backyard and a sweet front courtyard Beyond excited I started to plan it out with @ChristianWassmann Then the real estate market crashed in 2007 and the house lost half its value overnight, so all the funds disappeared, and even upside down on my mortgage I refused to give up So we literally built it slowly, as I could find the money from the banks, one piece at a time, until we finished it 10yrs later in #2017 #SoGrateful #ItsComeFullCircleNow #IFeelLikeItsFinallyOver #DreamsDoComeTrue #WhatAStory #AChefAndHisMagicTreehouse #TheHouseThatPizzaBuilt #NeverTakeNoForAnAnswer #Design #Architecture #SunPathHouse (at Miami Beach, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BuKW7wAlzz1/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1338jfupwltcv

Judge us by our #vegetables Because if we can’t provide delicious #nourishment we basically suck It’s not ok to make #menus and open #restaurants that don’t keep #nutrition at the top of their list of priorities right next to #flavor and #wowfactor Great #chefs know this and judge themselves by how well they nourish Outstanding raw and cooked vegetable choices are the only way to protect your clients from overeating meats and starches and feeling awful after a meal You see a great meal isn’t a great meal until it’s digested and turned to pure #fuel and new #ideas in the minds of all those who ate it How many times have you gone home from a “great meal” and felt awful, or broke out in the sweats from too much richness and over the top combinations For me that meal is a total #failure on all levels, and actually bad #karma for all who served it Look I know I can practically force you to #eatgreens like this beautiful #SpinachAlForno pictured @LilFrankies just by using the best imported Asiago and Parmigiano cheeses sparingly with the freshest hand washed raw #Californiaspinach so that’s exactly what I am going to aspire to do #NothingLess #EatYouVeggies #ICantForceYou #ButIHaveToTryTo #WithTheBestOfTheBest (at Lil' Frankie's) https://www.instagram.com/frankprisinzano/p/BuH1Uz1FCqt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=71vlcqssf8d