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

Insights, information and photographs about Spanish gastronomy, wine, culture and customized tours to Spain, where award-winning writer-photographer Gerry Dawes, author of Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain, where he has been traveling for more than 50 years. Content is from articles, books-in-progress and travel notebooks of Gerry Dawes. Reproduction is prohibited without written permission and author credit.

9/18/2026

Remembering The Great Donn Pohren: His Passing & His Significance "Embedded in me like a memory chip is the spirit of Donn Pohren and his book Adventures in Taste: The Wines and Folk Food of Spain."

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* * * * * Madrid, Spain - American writer and well-known Flamencologist Donn Pohren died in Las Rozas [a Madrid suburb] on November...
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9/15/2026

Sephardic Spain: Update on My Search for Jewish Historical Sites in Spain Part III of III Lorca's (Murcia) Jewish Village & Synagogue in a Castle and the Most Incredible Holy Week Processions Ever

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* * * * * Gerry Dawes with Jewish figure sounding the shofar at Archaeological Museum of Lorca, Lorca (Murcia). Lorca (Murcia) ...
9/14/2026

Sephardic Spain: The Incredible Remnants of Jewish Culture in the Old Quarters of Spain: Segovia, Toledo, Cordoba, Sevilla, Ribadavia (Galicia), Tudela (Navarra), Girona (Catalunya), Hervás (Cáceres)

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* * * * *      Santa Maria La Blanca, 12th-Century Ibn Shushan Synagogue in Toledo. Now a Christian church, this is the loveliest syn...
9/10/2026

9/11/2001 and Four Chefs: Quique Dacosta (El Poblet, Denia, Alicante), Mark Miller (Coyote Cafe, Santa Fe), Michael Lomonaco (Windows on the World & Wild Blue, World Trade Center) and Teresa Barrenechea (Marichu, NYC).

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  * * * * *    Chef Michael Lomonaco and Gerry Dawes at the James Beard House, New York City. During the tragic events of September, 2001, I...
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