Tag Archives: Gerry Dawes

Europe 2013 – Culinary Pilgrimages: Part 2 – Madrid Fusión

Though not quite 100% on Tuesday, we managed to get up and make our way out to the IFEMA site for the second day of Madrid Fusión. I was sadly disappointed to have missed both David Muñoz and Pascal Barbot [...]

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Europe 2013 – Culinary Pilgrimages: Part 1 – Madrid

It was an ambitious trip. Starting in Madrid, we would attend and cover the seminal Chef’s Congress, Madrid Fusión, all while partaking in some of Madrid and Spain’s finest contemporary and traditional restaurants like DiverXo and Casa Botín amongst others. [...]

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Sunday Photo- Lambrusco

Lambrusco, the wine and the grape. both from the Emiglia-Romagna  region of Italy, has suffered in reputation during the Parker years, but recently, a revival of sorts has taken place. True, much of the reason its reputation had suffered was [...]

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Sunday Photos – In the Green Room and Beyond at The James Beard Awards

Once the red carpet was through I headed to the Green Room of Avery Fisher hall at Lincoln Center, ground zero for the media covering the event, to partake in festivities and await the winners as they were announced and [...]

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Spanish Wines with Character from Gerry Dawes – Part Two: The Glorious Whites of Galicia

Who ever heard of tasting a bunch of reds before the main white wines? Well, thanks to Gerry Dawes, that is what we did and somehow, it worked out just fine. Maybe it was because the reds weren’t “big” monsters [...]

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Spanish Wines with Character from Gerry Dawes – Part One: Reds

Robert Parker’s opinion has held sway in the wine world for a long time, first coming to prominence with his pronouncements on Bordeaux’s famed 1982 vintage. His palate is attuned to “big” wines. Full throttled oaky monsters and high octane “fruit bombs” [...]

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Sunday Photo – The Spanish-fried Egg

I love eggs in Spain, especially when they are fried. In the United States, when eggs are fried it is most typically done in a skillet or a griddle with a little bit of fat, typically butter of bacon grease. [...]

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Revised Tour Itinerary and Pricing – Northern Spain 2010 with Gerry Dawes & Yours Truly

Gerry and I have made some revisions in the tour to bring down pricing without sacrificing quality. Here are the updated details:
 

Prices quoted are without airfare from the U.S. to Bilbao and return from Barcelona and include five and four [...]

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Gerry Dawes’ Review of Ferran from Food Arts

Reprinted with permission of Gerry Dawes.

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Ferran Adrià  and Tim Zagat at the book launch 
at the International Culinary Center in NYC on Oct. 12, 2010
Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented [...]

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Ferran Adriá at Bar Basque

Ferran Adriá was in NYC over the past few days to kick of the newly published book, Ferran: The Inside Story of El Bulli and the Man Who Reinvented Food  written by Colman Andrews to paint a literary portrait [...]

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