"The Meatball Guy"



While surfing the net recently, I came across a blog http://orangette.blogspot.com/.

I was curious to read a posting titled, “A man who knows meatballs.” My curiosity was piqued and I decided to see what it was all about. What added to my curiosity is that I have a friend who is “The” Meatball Guy around here. His winning recipe of Frankie’s Gravy and Meatballs was showcased on the Food Network’s highly popular Emeril Live Show. When Emeril picks your recipe you know that it’s tops.

I wanted to see what this so called meatball connoisseur was all about. Well I can say that they are meatballs because they do look like balls of meat. But just as I suspected these meatballs are not what your mother or grandmother use to make as part of the Sunday gravy. These are not the meatballs that Tony Soprano eats. These meatballs are for the yuppies who wouldn’t know the difference between calamari and fried onion rings.

Ingredients such as golden raisins, lemon and cumin yogurt sauce in meatballs are for the girlie-men who drink champagne and think that they’re Italian because they can say grande when ordering their caffe at Starbucks.

No contest. The man who knows meatballs, is Frankie Imbergamo, The Meatball Guy from Boston.