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Gerry Dawes's Persistence of Memory* (Salvador Dalí) Melting Watch Awards.
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Text & Photographs by Gerry Dawes©2010
gerrydawes@aol.com
Juan Suárez and his grandson, Borja, in a photo in Juan's kitchen in Madrid.
Juan Suárez, husband of Esmeralda Capel, one of the Directors of the annual Madrid Fusión Gastronomy Summit, is one of the most accomplished non-professional cooks in Spain. For several years, I have been following the cooking exploits of Suárez, a retired lawyer, avid golfer, one Hell of a culinarian and one of my great friends. Even calling Suárez “non-professional” chef is stretching the point. Technically, he does not get paid for cooking, but he is so well thought of by the great Chef Juan Mari Arzak that he has been invited to spend a week cooking in Arzak’s kitchen on several occasions.
Juan Suárez and Juan Mari Arzak at Arzak, where Juan has spent whole weeks cooking.
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