Feedspot 30 Best Gastronomy Blogs 2026 Gerry Dawes's Spain Is Now #7

 

 

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 In 2026, again ranked in the Top 50 Gastronomy Blogs and Websites for Gastronomists & Gastronomes in 2026 by Feedspot, now up to #7 . (Last Updated September 2026.) 

"The Best Gastronomy blogs selected from thousands of Food blogs, Culture blogs and Food Science blogs in our index using search and social metrics. We’ve carefully selected these websites because they are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information."   

       30 Best Gastronomy Blogs to Follow in 2026

The best Gastronomy blogs curated and ranked based on multiple factors, including content relevancy, subject expertise, posting frequency, and freshness of content. Blogs with highest credibility within the Gastronomy space are ranked higher. This list is updated regularly to ensure it reflects the most active, influential, and valuable Gastronomy blogs on the internet today.

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

Website https://www.gerrydawesspain.com/

Description 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.

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1. Gastronomy Blog

Website https://gastronomyblog.com/

Description My name is Cathy Chaplin. I serve up restaurant reviews in Los Angeles and The World. I was born in La Mesa, California, educated in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, and cultured in Saigon, Vietnam. Now based in Los Angeles. My writing and photography have appeared in numerous publications including Saveur, Los Angeles Times, Bon Appétit, and Condé Nast Traveler.MORE Email ****@gmail.com

2. Boston University Gastronomy Program Blog

Website https://sites.bu.edu/gastronomyblog/

Description Boston University's Gastronomy program is an interdisciplinary food studies master's program encompassing culinary arts, humanities, and social sciences. The Gastronomy at BU blog is intended to serve the community of current students and alumni of the Gastronomy students at the Metropolitan College of Boston University.

 3. Alexander Lobrano

Website https://www.alexanderlobrano.com/

Description A Paris dining diary memories cum guidebook to the best restaurants in Paris, and a gastronomic tour to France with gorgeous photographs and terrific recipes.

4. Greek Gastronomy Guide

Website https://www.greekgastronomyguide.gr/ Description The Greek Gastronomy Guide highlights the values ​​and commons of the gastronomic culture of Greece. It aims to inform its visitors about all the values ​​and goods of our gastronomic culture. Places, products and people, history and tradition, events and rituals, shopping, flavors, recipes and local cuisines unfold in front of you in such a way that each place is set up as a gourmet destination.

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5. Grab Your Fork

Website https://grabyourfork.blogspot.com/

Description Grab Your Fork is Helen's gastronomic journey through the streets of Sydney and around the world. She is a freelance food writer with a love of cheap eats, offal and fried chicken. Her work has been published in Good Food and Time Out Sydney.MORE Email ****@yahoo.com.au
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6. Gastronomic Salt Lake City

Website https://gastronomicslc.com/category/news/

Description All the latest Utah food and drink news. Gastronomic Salt Lake City is Utah's longest running online magazine covering the food and beverage scene. Bringing reviews, news, info and giveaways since 2009, if its worth eating, drinking or knowing about we'll let you know.

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

Website https://www.gerrydawesspain.com/

Description 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.

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Comments are welcome and encouraged.

 

Text and photographs copyright by Gerry Dawes©2021.  Using photographs without crediting Gerry Dawes©2021 on Facebook.  Publication without my written permission is not authorized.

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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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In 2026, again ranked in the Top 50 Gastronomy Blogs and Websites for Gastronomists & Gastronomes in 2026 by Feedspot, now up to #7 . (Last Updated September 2026.) 

"The Best Gastronomy blogs selected from thousands of Food blogs, Culture blogs and Food Science blogs in our index using search and social metrics. We’ve carefully selected these websites because they are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information."  

#7 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. 

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

 

Gerry Dawes: Writer, Photographer, and Chronicler of Spain

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Gerry Dawes, Juanito Bayen (owner of Bar Pinotxo) and the late Juli Soler (the front of the house genius behind elBulli) at Pinotxo Bar, Barcelona, Jan. 14, 2014.  Photo courtesy of Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest.  Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS30 43-86mm f3.3 – f6.4. 

 

The above photograph symbolizes Gerry Dawes's decades long involvement with both Spanish traditional gastronomy and modern Spanish culinary development. 

 

Gerry Dawes is an American writer, photographer, and authority on Spanish food, wine, and culture. Over more than five decades, he has documented Spain’s regional cuisines, wines, traditions, and culinary transformation, helping introduce American chefs and readers to the country’s gastronomic heritage.

Dawes lived in Spain for eight years and returned on numerous subsequent journeys, developing extensive firsthand knowledge of its regions, winemakers, chefs, restaurants, and cultural traditions. His reporting and photography have appeared in American and international publications, including Food Arts, for which he served as Spanish correspondent and became known as “Mr. Spain.”

In 1997, Dawes wrote “Foam, Foam on the Range,” an influential Food Arts article introducing American culinary readers to Ferran Adrià and his restaurant, elBulli. Food writer Colman Andrews subsequently described it as the first major American article about Adrià. Dawes continued documenting Spain’s gastronomic evolution and the emergence of its modern culinary movement.

Dawes also helped strengthen professional relationships among American chefs. In 1989, he founded Chefs From Hell, an informal club that brought chefs together for monthly meals hosted at members’ restaurants. Participants included Thomas Keller, Waldy Malouf, Rick Moonen, Brendan Walsh, and other prominent culinary figures. In Chefs, Drugs and Rock & Roll, author Andrew Friedman discusses Dawes’s role in fostering camaraderie among chefs during a period when such gatherings were unusual. Keller recalled that Dawes brought the group together simply to have fun.

Dawes’s contributions have received recognition from leading figures in gastronomy. José Andrés wrote the profile accompanying Dawes’s 2009 Food Arts Silver Spoon Award, praising his enthusiasm and expertise in Spanish food and wine. Adrià likewise credited Dawes’s writing with helping Americans discover Spain’s culinary culture. Dawes received Spain’s Premio Nacional de Gastronomía in 2003. Other honors include the Cava Institute’s First Prize for Journalism, the CineGourLand Cinéfilos y Gourmets prize, and recognition from the Association of Food Journalists. He was a finalist for the James Beard Foundation’s 2001 journalism award for magazine writing on wine.

His book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain combines memoir, travel writing, photography, and encounters with Spanish chefs, winemakers, artisans, and cultural figures. Featuring more than 160 photographs in its enhanced edition and a foreword by José Andrés, it reflects Dawes’s longstanding commitment to interpreting Spain through its food, wine, and people.

Alongside his gastronomic writing, Dawes has pursued independent research into Ernest Hemingway’s life and experiences in Spain. His project, Wasn’t It Pretty to Think So? Hemingway in Spain & 100 Years of The Sun Also Rises, investigates Hemingway’s travels, friendships, fishing experiences, and the historical evidence behind stories associated with his Spanish years. In July 2024, Dawes presented “Hemingway and Gerry Dawes: A Few Degrees of Separation,” exploring connections between people he knew and individuals who had encountered Hemingway, at the Hemingway Society’s international conference in San Sebastián and Bilbao.

Across gastronomy, wine, journalism, and literary history, Dawes’s work is characterized by firsthand observation, extensive personal connections, and a sustained interest in documenting Spain’s cultural life and examining the evidence behind its stories.

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Comments are welcome and encouraged.

 

Text and photographs copyright by Gerry Dawes©2021.  Using photographs without crediting Gerry Dawes©2021 on Facebook.  Publication without my written permission is not authorized.

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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.

 _________________________________________________________________________________

 

In 2026, again ranked in the Top 50 Gastronomy Blogs and Websites for Gastronomists & Gastronomes in 2026 by Feedspot, now up to #7 . (Last Updated September 2026.) 

"The Best Gastronomy blogs selected from thousands of Food blogs, Culture blogs and Food Science blogs in our index using search and social metrics. We’ve carefully selected these websites because they are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information."  

#7 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. 

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

 

Wasn't It Pretty to Think So? Hemingway in Spain & 100 Years of The Sun Also Rises by Gerry Dawes (Coming this Fall)

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 WASN’T IT PRETTY TO THINK SO?

Hemingway in Spain & 100 Years of The Sun Also Rises

Pamplona, Trout Fishing, Food, Wine, Bulls, Bullshitting, the Busting of Myths & The Reincarnation of The Lost Generation

By Gerry Dawes

An investigative journey into Hemingway’s Spain, the people who knew him, and the stories that have become part of his enduring legend.

In Wasn’t It Pretty to Think So?, American writer, photographer, and longtime Spain specialist Gerry Dawes brings decades of firsthand experience and original research to Ernest Hemingway’s life in Spain and the landscapes that inspired The Sun Also Rises.

Combining historical investigation, personal recollections, photography, maps, and literary analysis, Dawes revisits Hemingway’s fishing country in the Pyrenees, including the Burguete–Roncesvalles area of Navarre. His research into Hostal Burguete, the novel’s memorable setting, examines Hemingway’s fishing expeditions, the streams and waterfalls associated with them, and the distinction between documented history and assumptions repeated by generations of writers.

Dawes also explores Hemingway’s relationship with San Fermín, Pamplona’s world-famous festival of bullfighting and running with the bulls. His presentation, “Hemingway and Gerry Dawes: A Few Degrees of Separation,” traces connections between people Dawes knew and individuals who knew or encountered Hemingway, bringing a personal dimension to the history.

Among the book’s investigations is the enduring Hemingway legend surrounding Madrid’s Botín restaurants. Dawes distinguishes between the original La Antigua Casa de Botín in Plaza de Herradores and Sobrino de Botín on Calle de Cuchilleros, examining the historical evidence behind claims that Hemingway frequented the latter. His approach challenges readers to reconsider how anecdote, commercial storytelling, and repetition can turn an uncertain claim into accepted fact.

The book also explores Dawes’s longstanding connection to the world of Spanish bullfighting, including the legendary matador Antonio Ordóñez and Ordóñez’s grandson, matador Francisco Rivera Ordóñez. Dawes’s work with the late CBS correspondent Bob Simon on a 60 Minutes feature about Francisco Rivera Ordóñez provides another link between his journalistic career and Spain’s bullfighting culture.

Part literary detective story, part travel narrative, and part personal memoir, Wasn’t It Pretty to Think So? invites readers to revisit Hemingway’s Spain with fresh eyes—and to question what the historical record actually tells us.

Gerry Dawes combines the perspective of an experienced Spain correspondent with the curiosity of an independent investigator, uncovering the people, places, and evidence behind Hemingway’s enduring Spanish legend.

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Comments are welcome and encouraged.

 

Text and photographs copyright by Gerry Dawes©2021.  Using photographs without crediting Gerry Dawes©2021 on Facebook.  Publication without my written permission is not authorized.

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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.

 _________________________________________________________________________________

 

In 2026, again ranked in the Top 50 Gastronomy Blogs and Websites for Gastronomists & Gastronomes in 2026 by Feedspot, now up to #7 . (Last Updated September 2026.) 

"The Best Gastronomy blogs selected from thousands of Food blogs, Culture blogs and Food Science blogs in our index using search and social metrics. We’ve carefully selected these websites because they are actively working to educate, inspire, and empower their readers with frequent updates and high-quality information."  

#7 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. 

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