Lunch with Manolo Esquivias at Periqui Chico in el Barrio de Los Remedios, Sevilla, Then a Quiet Evening with Tapas at the Legendary Bodeguita Antonio Romero Plus Videos & Recipes for Espinacas con Garbanzos, One of Sevilla's Favorite Tapas

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(All Text, Recipes, Photos & Videos by Gerry Dawes©2019.)

Lunch in Los Remedios, Sevilla at Periqui Chico with my great Spanish "hermano" Manolo Esquivias Fedriani, Saturday, February 2, 2019.

Ensaladilla con gambas, potato salad with pieces of shrimp (not very good). 

Hueva cocida con mayonesa(cooked fish roe with mayonnaise on the side), not so good. Hueva is much better when it is done aliñado, dressed with Sherry vinegar and extra Virgen olive oil, usually with diced red and green bell pepper, Spanish onion and parsley.

Coquinas (tiny wedge shell clams) cooked with garlic, very good.

  

Salmonetitos (small red mullet), very good.

All accompanied by a good red wine, Martinez LaCuesta Crianza 2014 from La Rioja. Y es, Spaniards drink red wine with seafood, quite often.

In the evening, I took a break and after a stroll from the Hotel Alfonso XIII to the Hotel Inglaterra (on Plaza Nueva), where I have stayed in Sevilla several times, I decided to have some early tapas in the area just south of the hotel, which several of the city´s best tapas bars. 

I chose the nearby classic Bodeguita Antonio Romero on calle Gamazo, which serves some of Sevilla´s most emblematic and best traditional tapas.

I ordered a caña de cerveza to go with a tapa that Sevillanos are in love with, pringá, bottom-of-the-pot stew meat on a "pregnant" or pringado¨ roll and a montadito de chorizo picante, small chunks of picante chorizo on a little bun.

Next I had a tapa that Sevillanos are in love with, pringá, bottom-of-the-pot stew meat on a "pregnant" or pringado roll. 

My third and final tapa of the night was espinacas con garbanzos, spinach cooked with garbanzos, one of Sevilla´s favorite, most typical and ubiquitous tapas.  

Gerry's Dishes:  Espinacas con garbanzos a la Sevillana (Spinach with garbanzos Sevilla style), Video

Gerry's Dishes: Espinacas con garbanzos, garbanzo stew with spinach, cumin, saffrón, pimentón (Spanish paprika), garlic, bread, Spanish EVOO and Sherry vinegar (after a José Andrés recipe).

Map showing the location Bodeguita Antonio Romero, Hotel Inglaterra and the Cathedral in Sevilla.

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  Shall deeds of Caesar or Napoleon ring
More true than Don Quixote's vapouring?
Hath winged Pegasus more nobly trod
Than Rocinante stumbling up to God?

Poem by Archer M. Huntington inscribed under the Don Quixote on his horse Rocinante bas-relief sculpture by his wife, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington,

in the courtyard of the Hispanic Society of America’s incredible museum at 613 W. 155th Street, New York City.

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Gerry Dawes is the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, New York (streaming live and archived at www.pawlingpublicradio.org and at www.beatofthevalley.com.

Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià. 

In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés. 

". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009. 

 

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