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The
main pedestrian street in Alicante is the palm-lined Explanada de
España, which has a wavy mosaic running its considerable length that is
an optical illusion that even shows up in photographs. Those are not
troughs on the Explanada, it is flat!
La Terraza del Gourmet, the casual, bar-restaurant-breakfast spot run by the Perramón-San Román family and featuring the exceptional breads of Chef María José San Román´s San Román bakery that is a block away and supplies all of the families restaurants--the Michelin-starred Monastrell, , a steakhouse in the suburb of Playa de San Juan. Kay and I spent a fine Easter morning with María José, daughter Geni Perramón, who manages la Taberna del Gourmet, and daughter Raquel Perramón, who has opened a pizzeria with her husband in Playa de San Juan.
La Terraza del Gourmet, the casual, bar-restaurant-breakfast spot run by the Perramón-San Román family and featuring the exceptional breads of Chef María José San Román´s San Román bakery that is a block away and supplies all of the families restaurants--the Michelin-starred Monastrell, , a steakhouse in the suburb of Playa de San Juan. Kay and I spent a fine Easter morning with María José, daughter Geni Perramón, who manages la Taberna del Gourmet, and daughter Raquel Perramón, who has opened a pizzeria with her husband in Playa de San Juan.
La Terraza del Gourmet Delicatessen and Wine Bar, featuring the breads of Panadería San Román, on la Explanada de España, Alicante, Spain
Breakfast menu at La
Terraza del Gourmet Delicatessen and Wine Bar, featuring the breads of
Panadería San Román, on la Explanada de España, Alicante, Spain
Chef María José San Román at La
Terraza del Gourmet Delicatessen and Wine Bar on la Explanada de España, Alicante, Spain
Geni Peramón, General Manager of la Taberna del Gourmet and one of her daughters, Catalina, at la Terraza del Gourmet on Easter morning 2019.
Sisters Geni
Peramón, General Manager of la Taberna del Gourmet and her sister Raquel at la Terraza del Gourmet on Easter morning 2019.
Kay showing off her grandkids to Chef María José San Román at la Terraza del Gourmet on la Explanada de España in Alicante on Easter Morning 2019.
Horchata at the famous Peret Horchatería, Explanada de España, Alicante.
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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@gmail.com
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@gmail.com
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