Mercado Little Spain: Spain in New York, The Opening of Mercado Little Spain by José Andrés, Albert Adrià and Ferran Adrià at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 14, 2019

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

  Albert Adrià, one of the world's greatest chefs, restaurateurs and creative culinary minds sampling dishes at the opening of Mercado Little Spain by Albert Adrià, José Andrés and Ferran Adri at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 14, 2019. 

 
 
Two of the great ones, (l) Quim Marquez Duran of Quim de la Boqueria in Barcelona and Quim Marqués, former Chef-owner of El Suquet de L'Almirall in Barcelona and long-time friend and culinary schoolmate of José Andrés.  
Quim de la Boquería, La Boquería Market, Barcelona. Five Dalí POM (Persistence of Memory) Melting Watches

 

Valencian paella maestro and world´s greatest promoter of authentic paella a la Valenciana (with rabbit, duck, chicken, flat green beans called vainas and a white broad beans native to Valenica called garrofós) Rafael Vidal of Levante Restaurant (in Benisanó, a small town west of of Valencia) and his wife Fina Vidagany at the Leña wood-fired paella and grilled meats stand at Mercado Little Spain.

The beared wonders,  Spanish wine star Raúl Pérez and superstar illustrator Mikel Urmeneta, founder of Kukuxumusu and now with his new graphics company Katuki Saguyaki. Mikel Urmeneta @KatukiSaguyaki

ThinkFoodGroup Maestro Cortador de Jamón Pedro Carrasco on opening night at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards. 

 Wine Spectator Executive Editor Thomas Matthews and Alan Richman, one of America´s greatest food writers, at Mercado Little Spain opening, March 14, 2019. @AlanRichman

With my friends, the great Albert Adrià and Quim Marquez, Quim de la Boqueria in la Boqueria Market in Barcelona, having fun at the opening of Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City.   
Quim de la Boquería, La Boquería Market, Barcelona. Five Dalí POM (Persistence of Memory) Melting Watches

  Gerry Dawes and Albert Adrià at the opening of Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 14, 2019.

José Andrés gave an impassioned at the opening of Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 14, 2019. All photos by Gerry Dawes©2019.

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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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