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(All photos by or courtesy of Gerry Dawes©2019, unless otherwise noted. No publication of these photos is allowed without written permission.)
José
Andrés with a gintonic at his Bazaar by José
Andrés at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles. Photo by Gerry Dawes.
"As
a young chef arriving in America from Spain in the early 1990s, I came
to see Gerry as an ally. At the time, I found myself struggling to
explain Spanish cooking because people either had no idea or they had
the wrong idea. It was a battle. But Gerry's writing meant I was not
alone in telling Americans about piquillos and escudella and jamón. At a time when most food journalists were writing about France and Italy, Gerry went off in his own direction to become the first to really tell the story of Spain."– José Andrés, James Beard Award Winning Star Chef, Jaleo, Zaytinya, Café
Átlantico Minibar (Washington, D.C.), Bazaar by José Andrés (Los Angeles & Las Vegas), Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City; Nobel
Peace Prize Nominee and Oscar Presenter 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.
Gerry Dawes, Albert Adrià, illustrator Edel Rodríguez and José
Andrés with Rodríguez´s Time Magazine ¨Peach¨¨ cover of the March 25 issue about the Impeachment polemic surrounding Donald Trump. Photo by Julius Wiedemann, Editor in charge for design and pop culture at Tachen Books.
Albert Adrià and José Andrés talking over the events of the day at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 18, 2019. All photos by Gerry
Dawes©2019.
José
Andrés, the driving force behind José
Andrés ThinkFoodGroup, an empire of some thirty first-rate restaurant concepts in the United States. José
Andrés. a native of Asturias in northern Spain, is an immigrant who is
now an American citizen, who proudly wears an I Am An Immigrant
tee-shirt. Andrés,
who has performed Herculean humanitarian missions to feed earthquake,
hurricane, fire and other natural disaster victims, has been nominated
for the Nobel Prize and was a Presenter at the Oscars in Hollywood this
year. All photos by Gerry
Dawes©2019.
Trés Huevos: Quim Marqués, formerly the chef-owner of Suquet de L’Almirall in Barcelona, José Andrés and John Sconzo (Docsconz) at Mercado Little Spain (a José Andrés, Albert Adrià and Ferran Adrià creation) Hudson
Yards, March 19, 2019. All photos by Gerry
Dawes©2019.
Albert Adriá and José Andrés at Albert Adriá´s Tickets, Barcelona, June 2011. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2011.
Albert Adrià, José Andrés and a friend at Inopia's 4th (and last) anniversary party in Barcelona in March, 2010. Photograph by Gerry Dawes©2010. Contact: gerrydawes@aol.com.
José Andrés pouring Cava at a star-studded party for the opening of Albert's Inopia Tapas Restaurant (now closed) in Barcelona in April,
2010.
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2010.
José
Andrés tasting my wines of The Spanish Artisan Wine & Spirits
Group - Gerry Dawes Selections at Jaleo in Washington, D. C., December
2015. Photo by Gerry
Dawes©2015.
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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?
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.
Pilot for a reality television series
on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
Experience
Spain With Gerry Dawes: Customized Culinary, Wine & Cultural
Trips to Spain & Travel Consulting on Spain
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com
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