Pasteleria Mallorca, Madrid, Croissant con Cangrejo (a croissant stuffed with crabmeat [and some surimi])

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 Seven weeks in Spain and a week in Madrid, but I did not get close enough to Pasteleria Mallorca again to score one of these for breakfast: a croissant con cangrejo (a croissant stuffed with crabmeat [and some surimi]), wonderful.

Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition by Gerry Dawes.  Available on Amazon.com.

Kass and Eric Mencher

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and a fantastic trip through Spain!

 

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For those who have travelled to and fallen in love with Spain, “Sunset in a Glass” is for you. For those who have never travelled to Spain, well, this book is definitely for you, too!

 

Gerry Dawes is a master story-teller, with a keen eye for detail in both word and picture. Through a series of in-depth and diverse stories, he captures and beautifully conveys El Alma de España, The Soul of Spain. His love for the Spanish people, their traditions, their talents, and their passions shines brightly on every page. This book is a trip through Spain like no other.

 

From the comfort of our home, we travelled with Mr. Dawes as he sipped manzanilla on the beach at sunset. We felt his exhilaration (and terror?) as he ran with the bulls in Pamplona. And we were with him through a dozen other adventures, too, exploring the famed Barcelona market, La Boquería, or tasting the famed flavored foams of Ferran Adriá at elBulli, or watching the expertise of the Maestros Cortadores so skillfully slice the melt in your mouth jamón Ibérico de Bellota.

 

But the book is more than just expert story-telling. It’s an education in history, in tradition, in language, in life. We are among those who have travelled to and fallen in love with Spain and after just finishing “Sunset in a Glass”, we are also now confirmed lovers of this book.

 

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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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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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