Photo Album of Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017: The Shared Codes of Haute Cuisine, Paths of the Future, 15th Anniversary Edition, January 23-25, 2017

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 Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017 The Shared Codes of Haute Cuisine, Paths of the Future, 15th Anniversary Edition.   Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017

 Arturo Sánchez, one of Spain’s greatest producers of jamón Ibérico de Bellota and embutidos (charcuterie) from Guijuelo (Salamanca) with José Ángel Muñoz, his company’s cortador de jamones (professional ham carver) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #arturosanchez

 My old friend Alicante restaurateur Pitu Perramón, husband of celebrity chef María José San Román at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 

 Three-star chef Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta, Denia, Alicante) and journalist Alexander Forbes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #alexandraforbes #quiquedacosta

 Three-star chef Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta, Denia, Alicante) and journalist Alexander Forbes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #alexandraforbes #quiquedacosta

María José San Román (Monastrell, Alicante) and Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #quiquedacosta #grupogourmet #mariajosesanroman 

 Wine and olive oil producer, Carlos Falcó, el Marqués de Griñón, and Gerry Dawes at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  #amf17 Photo by Xandra Falcó.

 Wine and olive oil producer, Carlos Falcó (Marqués de Griñón), José Raventós (Director Nacional, Bodegas Roda-Corimbo-Aubocassa) and Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 Video producer and gastronomy writer Pepe Barrena with three-star Michelin chef Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 Gerry Dawes, Mikel Urmeneta (former owner of Kukuxumusu and now founder-owner of Katuki Saguyaki; yes, he makes those faces in photographs on purpose) and Mikel’s friend Luis Alberto at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 José Rodríguez Tarin, director general of Hotel Wellington, Madrid, and Gerry Dawes in the VIP lounge at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17.

 Amaia Ortuzar, Chef-owner of the legendary San Sebastián pintxo bar-restaurant Ganbara, licks a dollop of oestra caviar off her hand as Fernando Remírez de Ganuza, owner of Bodegas Remírez de Ganuza looks on at at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 Chef Tony Pérez, Alma Restaurant, La Mata-Torre Vieja (Alicante) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Alma

 

Directora General de Turisme de la Generalitat Valenciana (Director of Tourism for La Comunitat Valenciana) Raquel Huete Nieves samples a chufa de Valencia (used to make the popular drink, horchata) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts

Chufa de Valencia, the Tigernut tuber that is using to make the very popular drink horchata, a sweet refreshing cold drink that can be readily found in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts 

Chufa de Valencia, the Tigernut tuber that is using to make the very popular drink horchata, a sweet refreshing cold drink that can be readily found in the provinces of Valencia and Alicante.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17 #Tigernuts 

Black winter truffles from Morella (Castellón) at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

Licor de Crema de Trufa from la Comunitat Valenciana at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

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About Gerry Dawes

 Gerry 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@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com

Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017 in Photographs / Images From The 15th Anniversary Edition of One of the World's Greatest Gastronomic Conferences Day One, January 23, 2017

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 Star chef Juan Mari Arzak (Arzak), Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) and Albert Adrià (Tickets, Enigma, Bodega 1900 and more) on stage during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017.  #amf17 #arzak #albertadria

 (L to R, faces visible) Star chefs Angel de León (Aponiente), Juan Mari Arzak (Arzak), Pedro Larumbe (Restaurante El 38 de Larumbe), María José San Román Pérez (Monastrell), Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca), Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta), Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz), Martín Berasategui (Martín Berasategui) and Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) on stage during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017. #QuiqueDacosta #amf17

 Star chefs Pedro Larumbe (Restaurante El 38 de Larumbe), Ángel León (Aponiente), María José San Román (Monastrell) and Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca) on stage waiting to be interviewed during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017.

 Star Chef Joan Roca (three-star El Celler de Can Roca) on stage by the Madrid Fusión 15th Anniversary celebration cake made by star pastry chef Paco Torreblanca, at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 (L to R, faces visible) Star chefs Angel de León (Aponiente), Juan Mari Arzak (Arzak), Pedro Larumbe (Restaurante El 38 de Larumbe), María José San Román Pérez (Monastrell), Joan Roca (Celler de Can Roca), Quique Dacosta (Quique Dacosta), Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz), Martín Berasategui (Martín Berasategui) and Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) on stage during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017. #QuiqueDacosta #amf17
 

 Star chefs Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz) and Andoni Aduriz (Mugaritz), Martín Berasategui (Martín Berasategui) and Esmeralda Capel (Directora Asisa Madrid Fusión) on stage during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017. #Mugaritz #martinberasategui #amf17

 

Star chefs Martín Berasategui (Martín Berasategui) and Albert Adrià (Tickets, Enigma, Bodega 1900 and more)  on stage during the 15th Anniversary Madrid Fusión celebration, Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017.  #amf17 #martinberasategui #albertadria

 

 My dear friend Marco Sabatini, truffles expert, on screen in a video commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Madrid Fusión at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017, Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Jan. 23, 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

 Legendary elBulli Chef-owner Ferran Adrià (who was noticably absent in person) in a video commemorating the 15th Anniversary of Madrid Fusión at Asisa Madrid Fusión 2017, Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Jan. 23, 2017.  Photo by Gerry Dawes©2017 #amf17

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About Gerry Dawes

 Gerry 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. 

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 &riane 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@gmail.com; Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@spanishartisanwine.com

Madrid Fusión 2014, Day One Jan. 27 in Photos

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 Three-star chef Joan Roca of Can Roca (Girona, Catalunya), named by UK's Restaurant Magazine panel as The Best Restaurant in the World, on the first day of Madrid Fusión 2014 doing his presentation, Creatividad Urbana: Inspiración Externa, Motivación Interna. 
 Photo by Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM with Canon 1.4 Telextender. 

 
Madrid Fusión 2014. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2013 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS USM
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Juan Mari Arzak, María José San Román and Quique Dacosta at Madrid Fusión 2014. 
Photo by Gerry Dawes©2013 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS30 43-86mm f3.3 – f6.4. 

Chefs Sergi Arola and Jordi Cruz at Madrid Fusion 2014. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Canon 70-200mm f/4L USM with Canon 1.4 Telextender. 

 Pitu Perramón, Owner of La Taberna de Gourmet and other restaurants in Alicante, Jordi Cruz (ABaC, Barcelona) and his assistant chef, David, and food writer / Catalan culinary personality Xavi Agullò with champion cortador de jamón Clemente Gómez at Los Pedroches jamón Ibérico stand, on a jamón stand hopping tour that I organized at Madrid Fusión 2014. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Tokina 17-35mm f/4. 

 Three-star chef Martín Berasategui and two-star chef Paco Pérez (Hotel Mirror, Barcelona and Miramar, Costa Brava) at Madrid Fusión 2014. 
 Photo by Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Tokina 17-35mm f/4. 

José Andrés and three-star chef Juan Mari Arzak (Arzak, San Sebastián) at Madrid Fusión 2014. Photo by Gerry Dawes©2014 / gerrydawes@aol.com / Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest. Canon 5D Mark III / Tokina 17-35mm f/4. 

 
Slide Show of Madrid Fusión 2014, Day One Jan. 27

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About Gerry Dawes

Writing, Photography, & Specialized Tours of Spain & Tour Advice

For custom-designed tours of Spain, organized and lead by Gerry Dawes, and custom-planned Spanish wine, food, cultural and photographic itineraries, send inquiries to gerrydawes@aol.com.  

I have planned and led tours for such culinary stars as Chefs Thomas Keller, Mark Miller, Mark Kiffin, Michael Lomonaco and Michael Chiarello and such personalities as baseball great Keith Hernandez and led on shorter excursions and have given detailed travel advice to many other well-known chefs and personalities such as Drew Nieporent, Norman Van Aken, Karen Page and Andrew Dornenberg, Christopher Gross, Rick Moonen, James Campbell Caruso and many others.

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“The American writer and town crier for all good Spanish things Gerry Dawes . . . the American connoisseur of all things Spanish . . .” Michael Paterniti, The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge and The World’s Greatest Piece of Cheese

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"Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me." -- Michael Chiarello on Twitter. 

"Chiarello embarked on a crash course by traveling to Spain for 10 days in 2011 with Food Arts

contributing authority Gerry Dawes, a noted expert on Spanish food and wine.  Coqueta's (Chiarello's new restaurant at Pier Five, San Francisco) chef de cuisine, Ryan McIlwraith, later joined Dawes for his own two week excursion, as well. Sampling both old and new, they visited wineries and marketplaces, as well as some of Spain's most revered dining establishments, including the Michelin three-star Arzak, Etxebarri, the temple to live fire-grilling; Tickets, the playful Barcelona tapas bar run by Ferran Adrià and his brother, Albert; and ABaC, where Catalan cooking goes avant-garde." - - Carolyn Jung, Food Arts, May 2013.

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"In his nearly thirty years of wandering the back roads of Spain," Gerry Dawes has built up a much stronger bank of experiences than I had to rely on when I started writing Iberia...His adventures far exceeded mine in both width and depth..." -- James A. Michener, author of Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections

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Gerry 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 with Gerry Dawes  
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

MADRID FUSIÓN 2011 January 25, 26 & 27, 2011 Headliners: Ferran Adrià, Juan Mari Arzak, Joan Roca, rising Catalan star Jordi Cruz, Mexican chefs Bricio Domínguez and Martha Ortiz, Peruvian star Gastón Acurio, Chefs from Singapore and Flanders, Along with Carlo Cracco and Slow Food's Carlo Petrini from Italy.

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 Ferran Adrià in a pensive moment at Madrid Fusión 2009. 

Photograph by Gerry Dawes©2009

 

The 9th annual Madrid Fusión International Gastronomy Summit will take place in Madrid on January 25, 26 & 27.  Headlining the conference, as he has every year since its inception in 2003, will be Ferran Adrià, who will give his annual estado de Ferranismo (state of Ferranismo) address on opening day, this one entitled El Nuevo Bulli.

Chicago's Grant Achatz at Madrid Fusión 2009. 

Photograph by Gerry Dawes©2009.

This time Ferran will  elaborate further on the permanent closing of elBulli, "the world's best restaurant," on July 31, something he has done frequently for the past year since announcing the restaurant's closing at Madrid Fusión 2010 in a bombastic press conference that produced an explosion of articles about Ferran that could be described as the espuma (foam) that frothed around the gastronomic world--in record time.  Presumably, Ferran will enlighten this year's audience about his more definitive plans for the elBulli foundation (read Ferranismo think tank), when it opens in 2014 on the site of elBulli restaurant on Cala Montjoi, the legendary hard-to-get-to cove near Roses (Girona).   And certainly, we should hear more about the January opening in Barcelona Tickets, the flagship of undoubtedly will be become a string of tapas-and-cocktail bars that Ferran and his brother, Albert, have in the works.

Other highlights planned for Madrid Fusión 2010 include appearances by star Spanish Basque chefs Juan Mari Arzak, Elena Arzak, Martín Berasategui, Pedro Subijana, Andoni Aduriz and Eneko Atxa; Catalan stars Joan Roca and his brother Jordi, Carme Ruscalleda, Ramón Freixa and Jordi Cruz, a superb young chef who recently moved from the wonderful off-the-beaten-path provincial restaurant L'Angle (located next to Fundación Alicia near Manresa) to take over at Barcelona's tony Restaurante Abac.   Stars from other parts of Spain such as Quique DaCosta (Alicante), Mari Carmen Vélez (Alicante), Dani García (Andalucía) and Angel León (Andalucía).  Madrid chefs will include Paco Roncero (La Terraza),  Sergi Arola (Arola Gastro) and Ricardo Sanz (Kabuki  Wellington).   

The region of Galicia will be represented by transplanted Italian  chef Flavio Morganti (Galileo, Ourense) and Beatriz Sotelo (La Estación, A Coruña) plus Iago Pazos y Marcos Cerqueiro, two young rising stars who run an exceptional  tapas restaurant, Abastos 2.0, in the Santiago de Compostela market.  On the sweet side, super stars include the great pasteleros-chocolateros Christían Escribà, Oriol Balaguer, Jordi Butrón, Paco Torreblanca and Jacob Torreblanca.

Mexico and South America chefs invited include Mexico's Bricio Domínguez and Martha Ortiz, with Peruvian star Gastón Acurio.  Italy will be represented by the great Carlo Cracco and Carlo Petrini of Slow Food.

Each year, Madrid Fusión has a sub-theme representing the cuisines of a single country--Mexico, Perú, Japan.  This year Singapore will be represented with chefs Matthew Bax (Trippling Club), former Restaurant Daniel (New York) and elBulli stagier Kevin Cherkas (Blu) and French-trained (Ducasse and Gagnaire) rising star Andre Chiang (Restaurant Andre) and Flanders will feature presentations from chefs Bernard Lahousse (Sense for Taste, Bruges, Belgium), Dave De Belder (De Godevaart, Antwerp) and Gert de Mangeleer (Restaurant Hertong Jan, Bruges).  

The first version of Madrid Fusión in 2003 was a huge success and launched a plethora of international food conferences and spawned numerous imitators in Spain itself.  Each year it seems something of note that resounds throughout the culinary world occurs here.  

Nobu & Ferran, Madrid Fusión 2004. 

Photograph by Gerry Dawes©2004. Contact gerrydawes@aol.com.

Among the most memorable were the appearance of France's nouvelle cuisine super stars  and Nobu Matsuhisa in 2004, the appearance of Thomas Keller and awards to several great American culinary stars in 2006 (see photo below), Santi Santamaría's spectacularly scandalous declarations deriding Spanish cocina de vangaurdia practitioners in 2007--"The only truth that counts is the product   comes from the earth, passes from our stoves to the diner's mouth, and is then defecated."--and Ferran Adria's bomba announcement last year that he was closing elBulli.

The late Michael Batterberry, publisher-editor of Food Arts magazine, speaking at Madrid Fusión 2006
with a stage full of American and Spanish culinary stars as Mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón and Ferran Adrià applaud, with Juan Mari Arzak between them.  Photograph by Gerry Dawes©2010. Contact gerrydawes@aol.com.

MADRID FUSIÓN 2010, THEATRE OF IDEAS: Preview of the International Summit of Gastronomy Coming Up in Madrid, January 26, 27 & 28

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For more information on the event, tickets, hotels, etc. 
e-mail gerrydawes@aol.com 
 

 or go to MADRID FUSIÓN 2010


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MADRID FUSIÓN 2010, THEATRE OF IDEAS:

26 January Tuesday

TRENDS, CREATIVITY AND TALENTED NEW CHEFS

09:30 - 10:30  AUDITORIUM – Oriental Magnetism. Introduction by Benedict Beaugé

A trip to the sources.  Cheong Liew

The provocation of the senses. David Muñoz

10:30 - 11:45  AUDITORIUM – Concept review

The universe of grills. William Ledeuil

New sauces. Schilo Van Coevorden

11:45 - 12:30  AUDITORIUM - THEATRE OF IDEAS

Journalist summit. Introduction by José Carlos Capel.

             José Carlos Capel
      All photos by Gerry Dawes©2009.

Marco Bolasco, Jean Pierre Gabriel, Rafael García Santos, Nick Lander, Ruth Reichi and Jeffrey Steingarten.

Gerry Dawes, Jose Maria Pisa (De Re Coquinaria), Ruth Reichl, 
Jeffrey Steingarten (Vogue), Arthur Lubow (NY Times).

-What's the future of haute cuisine?
-The eco wave: reality or fiction?
-New restaurant models
-International chef classifications?

             Rafael García Santos

12:30 - 12:45 AUDITORIUM – Tribute

12:45 - 13:30 AUDITORIUM – elBulli 2009.

                 Ferran Adrià

13:00 - 13:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage area.
 
Martini Cocktail the classic way; What makes a good bartender. Salim Khoury

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch - Food tasting

15:00 - 15:45 AUDITORIUM

Technique and minimalism. Mark Best

15:45 - 16:15 AUDITORIUM

Talking with Grant Achatz

16:15 - 16:45 AUDITORIUM – Acidity as a trend.

                    Joan Roca

Vinegars with tradition. Joan Roca

16:45 - 17:45 AUDITORIUM – JAM SESSION: Nature and Design.

Rene Redzepi , Paul Cunnigham, Mads Refslund and Torsten Schmidt

17:00 - 17:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

Stanislav Vadrna.

18:00 - 19:00 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

The red gold from the sea, red prawns from Denia.

               Quique Dacosta

Quique Dacosta, Daniel Frías and Miquel Ruíz

19:00 - 20:00 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

Cheese… in haute cuisine. Paco Ron, Pepe Rodríguez Rey and Jesús González

27 January Wednesday

09:30 - 12:15 AUDITORIUM

THE EDIBLE FOREST:

The flavour of pine forests: pine cones and pine kernels. Miguel Ángel de la Cruz

                Rene Redzepi

Raw cooking.  Rene Redzepi

MUSHROOMS AND TRUFFLES

Micology R & D: Freeze-dried mushrooms.  Carlos de Pablo and Dr.Ramón Cacabelos

From harvest chef to the iconoclastic mycologist.   Aitor Basabe y Mikel Zeberio 


            Mikel Zeberio
 
Environmental sensibility.  Igles Corelli

12:15 - 12:45 AUDITORIUM - TALKING WITH A GENIUS

The elegance of Alain Ducasse.  Alain Ducasse

12:45 - 13:30 AUDITORIUM
 
Caviar, an eco-sustainable luxury. Introduction by Philippe Barbier.
 
Michel Troisgros.

13:00 - 13:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

Charles Schumann.

13:45 - 15:00 Lunch - Food tasting

15:00 - 15:45 AUDITORIUM

The spirit of nature: Earth, wind and fire. Yoshihiro Narisawa

15:45 - 16:15 AUDITORIUM

            Andoni Luís Aduriz

Ecological Intelligence: Second skin. Andoni Luis Aduriz

16:15 - 17:15 AUDITORIUM - THEATRE OF IDEAS

The myth of natural food products. Francisco García Olmedo

Transgenics exposed the risks from new crops. Juan Felipe Carrasco

17:00 - 17:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

Johnny Schuler.

17:30 - 18:30 Conferences

17:30 - 18:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

ROUNDTABLE; Javier Mariscal, Loquillo, Carmen Chaparro.

18:30 - 19:00 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

Nahuel Frúmboli (Flair)

18:30 - 19:30 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

The best ecological olive oils from all over the world.

                   Paco Roncero 

Kisko García, Ricard Camarena y Paco Roncero

28 January Thursday

GASTROECONOMY: MANAGEMENT + IMAGINATION = PROFITS

09:30 - 11:00 AUDITORIUM - New business opportunities


                    Dani García

Haute cuisine low cost.  Dani García

Singular food: "Prêt-à-porter" creativity. Íñigo Lavado

Street cuisine. Mobile restaurants. Thierry Marx

11:00 - 11:45 AUDITORIUM

Informality in Urban haute cuisine "Modern English Style." Jason Atherton

11:45 - 12:15 AUDITORIUM

Thirty years on the Podium. How to adapt to change.

Juan Mari Arzak and Elena Arzak

              Juan Mari Arzak & Elena Arzak
 
12:15 - 13:00 AUDITORIUM

Management of the proximity. Ben Shewry

12:30 - 13:00 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

"New Orleans, the birthplace of the Cocktail bar." Ángel San José.

13:00 - 13:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

"Return trip to the world of the cocktail." Carlos Moreno.

13:00 - 13:45 AUDITORIUM

Gin & Tonic's evolution. Javier de las Muelas

13:45 - 15:00 Lunch - Food tasting

15:00 - 15:45 AUDITORIUM

Nomadic chefs ("Private Kitchens", imaginative solutions, unusual catering).

Carl Borg and Pedro Monge

15:45 - 16:30 AUDITORIUM- THEATRE OF IDEAS

"The José Andrés case" in IE Business schools.

Luis Solís and José Andrés

16:30 - 17:00 BAR-SHOW.

Premium Beverage Area. Bitters. Diego Cabrera

16:45 - 17:45 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

The Mediterranean Sturgeon: the recovery of a millennium species.

Elena Arzak, Alberto Chicote and Ramón Freixa

17:00 - 17:30 BAR-SHOW. Premium Beverage Area.

Taste the Art. Drink with all your Senses.

Junior Merino.

17:45 - 18:30 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

Tiki cocktails and fashion mixed drinks. Javier de las Muelas

18:30 - 19:00 SALA POLIVALENTE

Amazing harmonies chocolate and red wine. Paco Torreblanca

 
               Paco Torreblanca

19:00 - 20:00 MULTIPURPOSE HALL

Icons of a prodigious decade in Spanish cuisine

Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià, Martín Berasategui, Manolo de la Osa

Ferran Adrià, Sergi Arola, Juan Mari Arzak, Martín Berasategui, Quique Dacosta, Manolo de la Osa, Dani García, Andoni Luis Aduriz , Joan and Jordi Roca, Carme Ruscalleda, Marc Singla, and Pedro Subijana

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About Gerry Dawes

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

Gerry 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. 

Mr. Dawes is currently working on a reality television series 
on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in 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

Experience Spain With Gerry Dawes: Customized Culinary, Wine & Cultural Trips to Spain & Travel Consulting on Spain