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

"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; Chef-partner of Mercado Little Spain at Hudson Yards, New York 2019

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Madrid, Museo del Pan Gallego with a Photograph of the Original La Casa Antigua Botín, the Actual Botín of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

 
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Madrid, Museo del Pan Gallego bakery, the oldest bakery in Madrid, supposedly founded in 1735 on the Plaza de Herradores, the same plaza as the location of the original La Casa Antigua Botín (founded 1725), the Botín of Ernest Hemingway´s The Sun Also Rises.  The oven supposedly the original with modern adaptations (unverified).