Mercado Little Spain Hudson Yards New York: More Encounters With The New Spanish Culinary Outpost Created By by Albert Adrià, José Andrés & Ferran Adrià, March 18, 2019

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 (All photos by or courtesy of Gerry Dawes©2019. No publication of these photos without written permission.)

Rafael Vidal and his wife Fina Vidagany at the Leña paella and roast meat stand dishing out real Paella Valenciana with chicken, rabbit, green beans and big white garrofó broad beans.

 

The live-fire paella pit at Leña paella and roast meat stand at Mercado Little Spain, March 18, 2019.

Super star chef and partner Albert Adriá was making pan tumaca, tomato bread with olive oil and garlic topped with slices of serrano ham, bocadillos most of the night at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City. — with Kay Balun at Mercado Little Spain.

Gerry Dawes and Joshua Whigham, former chef de cuisine at SLS The Bazaar by Jose Andres in Los Angeles, Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 18, 2019

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 Ruben Garcia, director of culinary creativity for ThinkFoodGroup, at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 18, 2019.

 Ibiza Kitchen Chappaqua and Ibiza Tapas Danbury owner-culinary director Ignacio Blanco with tapas at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 18, 2019.

Kay Balun at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York City, March 18, 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, at Mercado Little Spain, March 18, 2019.  Photo by Julius Wiedemann, Editor in charge for design and pop culture at Tachen Books.

Julius Wiedemann, Editor in charge for design and pop culture at Tachen Books and Andrea Piazza at Mercado Little Spain, Hudson Yards, NYC, March 18, 2019.

Albert Adrià and José Andrés talking over the events of the day at Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, March 18, 2019.

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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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