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36. Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel gerrydawesspain.com

"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; Chef-partner of Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York 2019

2/17/2021

A Clean, Well-lighted Place: Madrid Metro Columbia Station

 
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Madrid Metro Columbia Station
 
Madrid Metro Columbia Station
 
Where is the money going in the US that should go into our infrastructure. This is just one Metro station in Madrid, the Columbia station and a subway train that has just entered the station. Talk about a clean, well-lighted place, clean trains, fast and a ten-trip ticket costs about $15.
 
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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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36. Gerry Dawes's Spain: An Insider's Guide to Spanish Food, Wine, Culture and Travel


 
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. 


". . .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. 
 
Pilot for a reality television series on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
 

2/12/2021

Madrid Classics: Chocolatería/Churrería San Gines, Madrid


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Chocolatería San Ginés
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Scene from Chocolatería San Ginés
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Churros Fresh from the Cooker
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Cutting Churros
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Churros & lineup of cups for hot chocolate.
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Fresh Churros
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Churros, Chocolatería San Ginés
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Curly Churro & Chocolate
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


Churros con chocolate at Chocolatería San Ginés
Gerry Dawes copyright 2012


2/10/2021

The Vision of Columbus For Samuel Roger's Poems, J. M. W. Turner: Watercolors From Tate exhibition, Mystic Seaport Museum, Collins Gallery, Tompkins Exhibition Building, Mystic, CT. (2019-2020)

 
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The Vision of Columbus for Samuel Roger's Poems. The problem with this watercolor is Turner's "the marching ranks of armed spirits, the ghostly warriors of Atlantis" evoke visions of Napoleon's troops from the artist's era, not the era of Columbus. J. M. W. Turner: Watercolors From Tate exhibition, Mystic Seaport Museum, Collins Gallery, Tompkins Exhibition Building, Mystic, CT. The exhibition, the only showing in the United States, will run here until Feb. 23.

Be advised that the lighting is not optimum at this exhibition, by design, to protect the fragile delicacy of the watercolors and are thus not to be seen as their best. Also, to really get Turner, back off several feet, because a lot of the effect is lost up close. Also photography (without flash!) is actively encouraged at this exhibition. I shot all these with my Android Galaxy S9+ phone and actually began to really see these watercolors on my computer after I downloaded the photos (of which I shot more than 100) and could see the full-bore vibrancy of some of Turner's water colors.

 
 All photographs by Gerry Dawes
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 About Gerry Dawes

Gerry Dawes is the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on WPWL 103.7 FM Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, New York.

  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. 
 
Pilot for a reality television series on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
 

2/09/2021

Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews, a book review

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Ferran Adrià  and Tim Zagat at the book launch at the International Culinary Center in NYC on Oct. 12, 2010.   Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food by Colman Andrews, a book review excerpted from my article on Ferran Adrià in the October issue of Food Arts. 

(All photographs by Gerry Dawes copyright 2010.)


Colman Andrews, author of Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food.   Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

"Colman Andrews first began thinking about writing a book about Ferran Adrià at the historic Culinary Institute at Greystone's "Spain and the World Table," conference in November, 2006. At that conference there was a particular poignant moment that was the climax of what Andrew's calls "a hugely ambitious, highly successful . . . program," when The French Laundry's Thomas Keller introduced Ferran Adríà to tumultuous applause. 

Thomas Keller at the Culinary Institute of America - Greystone
during his introduction of Ferran and the Spanish chefs during
the 2006 Worlds of Flavor Conference dedicated to Spain.
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

Ferran Adríà and the all-star lineup of Spanish chefs 
at the CIA Worlds of Flavor Conference 2006. 
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

Coming after the 2003 The New York Times Sunday Magazine article, Arthur Lubow article that posed the question, "Is Spain the New France?", the French-trained, Francophile Keller's introduction was something very much like the passing of the torch to Spain and to Adrià, who for nearly a decade now has been called "the world's greatest chef" and his restaurant, elbulli, "the world's greatest restaurant." That moment at the CIA-Greystone well may have been the greatest event in Spain's long culinary history.


Ferran Adrià and Arthur Lubow at the book launch 
at International Culinary Center in New York. 
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

Andrews-with the help of elBulli (the official name of the restaurant) alumni, Ferran Adrià confidant and chef-restaurateur José Andrés "kept after" Ferran for nearly a year. At one point, Andrés told Andrews, "If he thinks this is my idea or your idea, he will maybe not be so eager to say yes. He has to think it is his idea." They both persisted until Ferran told Andrews, "the next time you are Barcelona, we'll talk." Andrews quickly booked a flight to Barcelona, where he long felt at home since he spent a lot of time there two decades ago writing his seminal book on the food of Catalunya, Catalan Cuisine: Europe's Last Great Culinary Secret (Atheneum, 1988).



Ferran Adrià at Inopia. 
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.


Andrews managed to pin Ferran down over dinner at Inopia, Ferran's brother Albert's happening tapas bar (he just sold it; see accompanying article). At the end of a meal that featured traditional Spanish tapas-white asparagus , five kinds of olives, jamón Ibérico from Salamanca, esquiexada (Catalan shredded raw salt cod salad), fried artichokes, fried boquerones (anchovies), pa amb tomaquet (Catalan grilled bred rubbed with tomato and garlic) and small grilled shrimp, washed down with a crisp Catalan white wine, Andrews asks himself about whether he had the green light to do this book, "Was this (Ferran's) capitulation?"



Boquerones en vinagre with olives and raf tomatoes, Inopia.
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

All those who needed a book on Ferran-I am one of them, even though I have known him for nearly fifteen years-that tells you everything you need to know, but were always afraid to ask, about the man, his restaurant, his dimension-bursting food, his partner Juli Soler and the truth and mythology that surrounds elBulli, this fine, eminently readable treatment is a blessing. Colman Andrews has done a brilliant job with this nearly 300-page book, despite what the misguided review in The New York Times claimed.


Ferran Adrià at the International Culinary Center in NYC on Oct. 12, 2010.     
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.

Readers will come away from Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food with an infinitely greater understanding of the "world's greatest chef," who indeed reinvented (and continues to reinvent) food in the 21st Century. The only negative in the American edition is that there are no photographs; the European edition apparently has them." 
 


2/03/2021

Photo Album of Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017: The Shared Codes of Haute Cuisine, Paths of the Future, 15th Anniversary Edition, January 23-25, 2017


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 Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017 The Shared Codes of Haute Cuisine, Paths of the Future, 15th Anniversary Edition.   Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017

 Arturo Sánchez, one of Spain’s greatest producers of jamón Ibérico de Bellota and embutidos (charcuterie) from Guijuelo (Salamanca) with José Ángel Muñoz, his company’s cortador de jamones (professional ham carver) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #arturosanchez


 My old friend Alicante restaurateur Pitu Perramón, husband of celebrity chef María José San Román at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 


 Three-star chef Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta, Denia, Alicante) and journalist Alexander Forbes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #alexandraforbes #quiquedacosta


 Three-star chef Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta, Denia, Alicante) and journalist Alexander Forbes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #alexandraforbes #quiquedacosta


María José San Román (Monastrell, Alicante) and Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #quiquedacosta #grupogourmet #mariajosesanroman 

 Wine and olive oil producer, Carlos Falcó, el Marqués de Griñón, and Gerry Dawes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  #amf17 Photo by Xandra Falcó.


 Wine and olive oil producer, Carlos Falcó (Marqués de Griñón), José Raventós (Director Nacional, Bodegas Roda-Corimbo-Aubocassa) and Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17


 Video producer and gastronomy writer Pepe Barrena with three-star Michelin chef Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17


 Gerry Dawes, Mikel Urmeneta (former owner of Kukuxumusu and now founder-owner of Katuki Saguyaki; yes, he makes those faces in photographs on purpose) and Mikel’s friend Luis Alberto at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17


 José Rodríguez Tarin, director general of Hotel Wellington, Madrid, and Gerry Dawes in the VIP lounge at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17.


 Amaia Ortuzar, Chef-owner of the legendary San Sebastián pintxo bar-restaurant Ganbara, licks a dollop of oestra caviar off her hand as Fernando Remírez de Ganuza, owner of Bodegas Remírez de Ganuza looks on at at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17


 Chef Tony Pérez, Alma Restaurant, La Mata-Torre Vieja (Alicante) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Alma


 
Directora General de Turisme de la Generalitat Valenciana (Director of Tourism for La Comunitat Valenciana) Raquel Huete Nieves samples a chufa de Valencia (used to make the popular drink, horchata) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts


Chufa de Valencia, the Tigernut tuber that is using to make the very popular drink horchata, a sweet refreshing cold drink that can be readily found in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts 

Chufa de Valencia, the Tigernut tuber that is using to make the very popular drink horchata, a sweet refreshing cold drink that can be readily found in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts 


Black winter truffles from Morella (Castellón) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

Licor de Crema de Trufa from la Comunitat Valenciana at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

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About Gerry Dawes

 Gerry 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. 
 
Pilot for a reality television series on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
 
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