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Casa Sobrino de Botín
A window commemorating
Ernest Hemingway at Casa Botín, an EH favorite which figured prominently in the
final pages of The Sun Also Rises.
Casa
Sobrino de Botín was an EH favorite from the mid-1920s until he died.
The restaurant figured prominently in the final pages of The Sun Also Rises. I have long been a friend of the owners of Casa Botín, so they lend him the restaurant's copy of Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises) and I read the passages in the book
that are set in this famous restaurant, which is claimed in the Guiness
Book of Records to be the oldest continually operating restaurant in
the world.
Gerry reading scenes set in Casa Botín from Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises.
Javier Sánchez, Director Adjunto of Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, serves guarnición (chopped fresh tomato, bell pepper, onions and cubes of bread) for gazpacho to Mike Reiss, long-time writer-producer-character creator for The Simpsons, May 2022.
"We lunched upstairs at Botin’s. It is one of the best restaurants in
the world. We had roast young suckling pig and drank rioja alta. Brett
did not eat much. She never ate much. I ate a very big meal and drank
three bottles of rioja alta."--Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises.
Long-time friend Antonio González, owner of Restauraunte Botin joined me at my favorite table, the single mesa behind the bar that is reserved for friends of the family at Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, at Restauraunte Botin, Madrid. Antonio posed with my book Sunset in a Glass. #RestauranteBotin
My friend Javier Sánchez, Director Adjunto of Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, at Restauraunte Botin, Madrid. #RestauranteBotin
Javier Sánchez, Director Adjunto of Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, with me and Mike Reiss, long-time writer-producer-character creator for The Simpsons, May 2022. at my favorite table, the single mesa behind the bar that is reserved for friends of the family at Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, at Restauraunte Botin, Madrid.
Jamón
Ibérico, gazpacho and red sangría at Casa Botín at my preferred table,
the private table behind the bar at the entrance to this great
restaurante.
Javier Sánchez, Director Adjunto of Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, serves guarnición (chopped fresh tomato, bell pepper, onions and cubes of bread) for gazpacho to Mike Reiss, long-time writer-producer-character creator for The Simpsons, May 2022.
Gazpacho with guarnición (chopped fresh tomato, bell pepper, onions and cubes of bread) added at Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín. I always have Botín's excellent gazpacho here in season.\
I always order morcilla (blood sausage) con pimientos rojos asados (roasted red peppers) at Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín.
Javier Sánchez, Director Adjunto of Restaurante Sobrinos de Botín, serving gambas al ajillo, garlic shrimp, one of Spain´s most emblematic dishes and an excellent choice for an appetizer at Botín. April 2022.
Cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, con patatas asadas from the ancient stone oven
at Casa Botín, the oldest continually operating restaurant in the world. All photos by Gerry Dawes©2019.
Cochinillo asado, roast suckling pig, one of Don Ernesto's favorites, at Casa Botín.
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(Available
at Amazon, Despana (NYC), LaTienda.com, La Boca Restaurant (Santa Fe,
NM), at Kitchen Arts & Letters bookstore (NYC) and at the Book Cove in Pawling, New York.
Comments are welcome and encouraged.
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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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