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WILDWOOD — Anthony “Buckets” Blakes first job was at age 13 at a Dunkin’ Donuts.
Now a guard for the Harlem Globetrotters where the dunks happen on the court, Blakes visited the Wildwoods on July 29 to see if he could keep with local employees at their some summer jobs.
From making pizza at Sam’s to slicing potatoes at Curley’s Fries, Blakes took on each job with the enthusiasm he demonstrates with the Globetrotters.
The Globetrotters, who play at the Wildwoods Convention Center Aug. 10-13, bill themselves as the ambassadors of good will. The teams have played more than 25,000 games worldwide since it was formed in 1926 in Chicago by Abe Saperstein.
Normally the team never plays in the United Sates during the summer, he said. However they made an exception to tour in Wildwood for their 85th anniversary season.
“We finally are here when everything is open,” Blakes said.
“It is a great job,” Blakes said of his career with the Globetrotters. “We travel all over the world entertaining people and making them laugh. We also try to teach lesson about character.”
Not only are they seen as athletes, but also as entertainers. As Blakes pointed out, there is a certain amount of perfection that is expected of the team.
“We try to reach out to people, not only on the court but in there lives,” he added.
At Sam’s Pizza Palace, in between bites of his cheese pizza, Blakes signed autographs and demonstrated some ball handling tricks.
After lunch, Blakes received his own lesson in pizza making from Anthony Zuccarello, who has been in the business for 43 years. He couldn’t quite toss the dough like Zuccarello and the cheese to sauce ratio was a bit off, but Blakes laughed off his mistakes.
"I'm going to make pizza for professionals," he said to the customer while demonstrating a few tricks with the basketball. "It's easier than doing it every day."
Kohr Bros to close, Blakes met Suzie Glynn from Ireland who taught him to make ice cream cones.
"It's harder than it looks," Blakes said with a laugh like vanilla cream sprayed out of the machine.
After his lesson, Blakes has a cone that dominated Glynn.
"Looks like I have a job to fall back on if the whole basketball thing does not work," he said.
Glynn said she was surprised to hear that Blakes knew her hometown in County Kerry.
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Maggie Senatore, who played basketball at Wildwood Catholic High School from 2005 to 2009, gets some tips from Globetrotter Anthony “Buckets” Blakes at Sam's Pizza Palace. WILDWOOD — Anthony “Buckets” Blakes first job was at age 13 at a Dunkin' Donuts
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Keste Pizza and Vino is an authentic Neapolitan Pizzeria in NYC located at 271 Bleeker Street, NYC.
It is also the official location in the USA for APN (Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani whose mission is to protect and preserve the Neapolitan pizza tradition and promote the art of pizza making. The organization also certifies professional pizza makers in the tradition of Neapolitan Pizza.
“Since my first day in NY (10 years ago)”, says Rosario Procino, “ I always wanted to eat good Neapolitan pizza and I could never find it. Then three years ago I met Roberto Caporuscio and once I tasted his pizza it was like falling in love once again”.
“It was then that I thought that the only way for me to have my Neapolitan pizza in NY was to partner with him. We opened Keste a few months ago and it seems the rest of NYC is falling in love with it as well!
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Roberto Caporuscio was born and raised on a dairy farm in Pontinia, about an hour’s drive from Napoli where he first developed his culinary skills producing and selling cheese.
It was, however, in Napoli, the birthplace of pizza, that Roberto went to study the art and craft of this culinary delight with the most talented masters of the Neapolitan pizza makers. After training with the best, he opened two successful pizzerias in Pittsburgh, followed by A Mano in Ridgewood, NJ . Each endeavor brought critical acclaim from the culinary industry, as well as the rave reviews and articles in books and magazines.
Two years ago, Chef Roberto became President of APN (Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani) and consultant to a variety of restaurants in Chicago, Denver, St Louis, and Madison – bringing his knowledge, experience and influence to a wider audience.
A few months ago, Chef Roberto partnered with Rosario Procino and opened Keste Pizza and Vino – where authentic Neopolitan Pizza is made in the heart of Greenwich Village.
THE HISTORY OF PIZZA
The word pizza, as it is currently spelled, was used to describe both sweet and salty pies in the Middle Ages, but took the form that we are now familiar with in pre-Renaissance Naples, a large city in central Italy. Poor peasants used their limited ingredients -flour and water, creating a bread dough, stretched and baked to make a seasoned, flat bread.
It’s said that the pizza that made Naples world famous is the Pizza Margherita in Italian or Pizza Margarita to the rest of the world. A local man and the town baker called Esposito first baked it in 1889. He created the pizza in honor of a visit to Naples by the Queen of Italy, Queen Margherita.
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