The Simpsons Mike Reiss Podcast on Traveling in Spain With Gerry Dawes

 

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Listen to "Who Pays?," the Mike Reiss's comedy (?) podcast on our trip to Spain together.

 

Who pays? The Simpsons Mike Reiss's take in a podcast on what it is like for a certified cheapsake to tour Spain with me! Somehow he conned me into coming to his home recording studio in Manhattan to record the voice overs that make fun of Southern Illinois accents, specifically mine. His claim in this podcast that his buddy Bob Oldenkirk, who is best known for his role as the unscrupulous lawyer Saul Goodman on the Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, is from Southern Illinois and he doesn't talk like I do is what Mike himself admits is bogus. Oldenkirk is from Naperville near Chicago, which is some 350 miles north of where I was born and raisied in Southern Illinois, which is below the Mason-Dixon line. Oldenkirk did go to my alma part-timer Southern Illinois University, where the mighty Saluki dogs reign supreme and delivered Walter Frazier to the New York Knicks, when they used to put a basketball team out on the floor on a regular basis. 

 

 

Mike Reiss and Gerry Dawes in Mike's home recording studio in Manhattan doing the podcast.
 

 

Any lawyers out there who will work pro bono? I think we might have a litigation opportunity here. Reiss is reportedly worth gadzillions after 33 years of profits from writing for, producing and creating characters for The Simpsons (I accuse him of being the model for Homer). Half of his money would be good. Ameliorating factors are: He plugs my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition at the end of the podcast and under extreme duress he paid my expenses for the privilege of touring northern Spain with a food and wine road warrior who is a 50-year veteran in leading such trips for real money, not just expenses. I get paid to do these trips, so Mike went pro bono and is only a half of a Pay pal. Make that a quarter of a Pay pal.

 

The Simpsons Mike Reiss, Gerry Dawes and Jorge Carnero, owner-colleiteiro of Viña Cazoga, Ribeira Sacra, with a page autographed with a drawing by Mike Reiss to a friend of Jorge.
 

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Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition

 

(Available at Amazon, Despana (NYC), LaTienda.com, La Boca Restaurant (Santa Fe, NM) and at Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore (NYC). 

 

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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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