Mercado Little Spain Hudson Yards New York: More Encounters With The New Spanish Culinary Outpost Created By by Albert Adrià, José Andrés & Ferran Adrià, March 19, 2019

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 (All photos by or courtesy of Gerry Dawes©2019. No publication of these photos without written permission.)

Mercado Little Spain Trainer Maggie Elmore serving from a carafe gazpacho con guarnición, Andalucian gazpacho with diced vegetable garnish at La Barra at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 19, 2019. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2019.

A. J. Ojeda-Pons, Beverage Director at Mercado Little Spain (a José Andrés, Albert Adrià and Ferran Adrià creation) Hudson Yards, expertly perpared two draft Vermouths for John Sconzo and Gerry Dawes,  March 19, 2019. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2019.

 

The live-fire paella pit at Leña paella and roasted meats stand at Mercado Little Spain.

Super star chef and partner Albert Adriá was making pan tumaca, tomato bread with olive oil and garlic topped with slices of serrano ham, bocadillos most of the night at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City. — with Kay Balun at Mercado Little Spain.

Joshua Whigham, former chef de cuisine at SLS The Bazaar by Jose Andres in Los Angeles, helping out as a training consultant at La Barra at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 19, 2019.   #ChefJoshuaWhigham

 Ruben Garcia, director of culinary creativity for ThinkFoodGroup, at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 18, 2019.

John Sconzo (Docsconz) of Rascal & Thorn culinary travel at Leña paella and roasted meats stand at Mercado Little Spain.

José Andrés´s ThinkFoodGroup Maestro Cortador (professional ham carver)  de jamón Ibérico de bellota "opening," making the first cuts, for carving an  Ibérico ham  at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 19, 2019. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2019

Rafael Vidal and his wife Fina Vidagany, owners of Valencia's El Levante Restaurante and maestros of authentic paella Valenciana at the fire pit beging another paella Valenciana (with rabbit, chicken, green beans and rice) at Leña, the paella and grilled meats stand at José Andrés's & Albert and Ferran Adriàls Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 19, 2019. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2019.

 Employee making pan tumaca, Spanish bread with fresh crushed tomato, garlic, salt and olive oil, topped with thin sliced jamón serrano. 

 Creative Director of José Andrés´s ThinkFoodGroup and John Sconzo (Docsconz) with a pot of arroz caldoso, a "soupy" seafood rice dish, at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 19, 2019. Photo courtesy of  Gerry Dawes©2019

 

José Andrés at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards.

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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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About Gerry Dawes

My good friend Gerry Dawes, the unbridled Spanish food and wine enthusiast cum expert whose writing, photography, and countless crisscrossings of the peninsula have done the most to introduce Americans—and especially American food professionals—to my country's culinary life." -- Chef-restaurateur-humanitarian José Andrés, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and Oscar Presenter 2019

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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