Gerry Dawes & Friends WPWL 103.7 Pawling Public Radio

27/05/2024

Today's photo shoot on the Appalachian Trail, Pawling, New York.

21/05/2024

Europe should be prepared for the reception of a mass of refugees from the Unitrd States if Trump takes power
He is insane and worse are his supporters who are insanely aiding and betting this effort. Do not assume that he and his Fourth Reich people will wait for the results of the election to try to seize power. This time they will likely storm the poorly defended White House and even take Biden prisoner. That's what tyrants do in staging a coup d'etat. Don't think they are capable of this? Well, we didn't believe this crazy so*******ch would lead a storming of the Capital in an attempt to overturn the results of a legal election either. We are dealing with an aging lunatic who has snorted Adderrall crushed in a spoon all his adult life, but again it is not him that we should fear, since he has a short physical shelf life, it is the corrupt morally debased people behind him, the super rich for whom money is blood.

(To Jonell Galloway, you were right to open up this grave political situation on your pages, The Rambling Epicure and Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway.

If something isn't done to stop these Hitlerian wannabes, many us will be contributing recipes to concentration camp cookbooks way sooner than we think.)

Former President Donald Trump on Monday posted a video on his social media platform that uses a language that appears to mirror that of N**i Germany, suggesting there will be a "Unified Reich" if he wins the 2024 election. The video then predicts an economic boom, tax cuts, border security and depor...

17/05/2024

Paul Skennes, the Pittsburgh Pirates rookie phenom pitcher, in just his second start, has struck out the first SIX Cubs he has faced in Chicago.

16/03/2024

The Trump special fork will be available soon in gold, supposedly crafted from the melted down toilets in what was Trump Tower, but is now the E. Jean Carroll Tower on Fifth Avenue. Let me know asap. I can get you the gold tennis shoes and the gold fork for just $600. Please allow at least two months for delivery on the forks.

06/03/2024

Profiles of Pamplona: The Spiritual Descendants of Gertrude Stein's Lost Generation and of Ernest Hemingway's Characters in The Sun Also Rises. Scan of my article in Madrid's venerable English language magazine, Guidepost, July 11, 1975

04/03/2024

Pamplona, July 1973 my old friend from Peña Anaitasuna José Ramón Jorajurría, Gerry Dawes and Juanito Quintana, who was the inspiration for Montoya in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. This photo was taken by Diana Valenti Dawes after lunch at José Ramón's and his wife Paquita's apartment. Paquita was Juanito Quintana's niece. This was the last lunch he ever had in his beloved Pamplona during los sanfermines. Later that afternoon, Juanito was not feeling well and went to the hospital. He died in the winter of 1973-1974.

27/02/2024

There is a reason why this book has 58 reviews, 54 of them written, 53 of them five stars. Just one flaming as***le who calls himself Francisco panned the book.

Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition Paperback – December 16, 2021

by Gerry Dawes (Author, Photographer), Kathleen Balun (Editor), & Foreword by Chef José Andrés.

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 58 ratings

The SECOND EDITION of Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior Enhanced Photography Edition Volume I (of IV) has some new photographs and text, The book is a collection of non-fiction stories about the adventures of recognized Spanish food, wine and travel authority Gerry Dawes, recipient of the prestigious Spanish National Gastronomy Prize. Sunset in a Glass is illustrated with more than 160 color and black-and-white photographs chronicling adventures from decades of living and traveling in Spain. The Foreword by star Chef José Andrés. The First Edition has 50 Five-star reviews on Amazon..

The stories in Sunset in a Glass are distilled from decades of crisscrossing Spain accumulating adventures with the likes of José Andrés, Anthony Bourdain, James Earl Jones, Kenneth Tynan, Keith Hernandez, Thomas Keller, Ferran Adria, top chefs and restaurateurs, star winemakers and artisan wine producers, professional Ibérico ham carvers, bullfighters, flamenco artists, friends of Ernest Hemingway and a wonderful collection of women in Spain.

Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition

08/12/2023

If you go onto Amazon right now, you can easily solve some of your Christmas, Hannakuh, Three Kings' Day, Birthday and other gift needs, by getting multiple copies of Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain. Suitable for anyone interested in food, wine, adventure, Spain and stupendous writing and photography. This has been a public service announcement.

(And don't forget to tell those who get this book as a gift to leave a glowing written endorsement on Amazon, as 52 other people have, including some of the top food writers, chefs, authors and personalities in the U.. S., Britain and Spain have done.)

Photo of Gerry Dawes with Sunset in a Glass by Michael Gold, Master Photographer, New Paltz, New York, at Darrin Seigfried's cassoulet party, Nov. 2023.

20/12/2022

Spain, Gerry Dawes, Spanish food, Spanish wine, Spain travel,

15/06/2022

Who pays? The Simpsons Mike Reiss's take in a podcast on what it is like for a certified cheapsake to tour Spain with me! Somehow he conned me into coming to his home recording studio in Manhattan to record the voice overs that make fun of Southern Illinois accents, specifically mine. His claim in this podcast that his buddy Bob Oldenkirk, who is best known for his role as the unscrupulous lawyer Saul Goodman on the Breaking Bad and its spin-off Better Call Saul, is from Southern Illinois and he doesn't talk like I do is what Mike himself admits is bogus. Oldenkirk is from Naperville near Chicago, which is some 350 miles north of where I was born and raisied in Southern Illinois, which is below the Mason-Dixon line. Oldenkirk did go to my alma part-timer Southern Illinois University, where the mighty Saluki dogs reign supreme and delivered Walter Frazier to the New York Knicks, when they used to put a basketball team out on the floor on a regular basis.

Any lawyers out there who will work pro bono? I think we might have a litigation opportunity here. Reiss is reportedly worth gadzillions after 33 years of profits from writing for, producing and creating characters for The Simpsons (I accuse him of being the model for Homer). Half of his money would be good. Ameliorating factors are: He plugs my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain Volume I Enhanced Photography Edition at the end and under extreme duress he paid my expenses for the privilege of touring northern Spain with a food and wine road warrior who is a 50-year veteran in leading such trips for real money, not just expenses. I get paid to do these trips, so Mike went pro bono and is only a half of a Pay pal, make that a quarter of a Pay pal.

Mike Reiss has been writing for The Simpsons for three decades. In his spare time, he’s visited 134 countries, including Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and the North Pole. Hear all about it in this very funny and reasonably true podcast.

20/12/2021

Now available on Amazon.com, amazon.uk, amazon.fr, amazon.es

Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior Volume I (of IV), Enhanced Photography Edition* (FOREWORD by José Andrés) a collection of non-fiction stories about the adventures of recognized Spanish food, wine and travel authority Gerry Dawes, recipient of the prestigious Spanish National Gastronomy Prize. Sunset in a Glass is illustrated with more than 150 black-and-white and color photographs chronicling adventures from decades of living and traveling in Spain.

This book is perfect for armchair travelers deprived of their ability to travel because of the COVID pandemic and those undergoing Spain withdrawal. Sunset in a Glass is a great holiday gift for those who love travel, adventure, Spain and Spanish food and wine.

Table of Contents:

Manzanilla Sherry at Sunset
Sevilla and Soldiers on a Train
Padre Lezama: Tavern Priest of the Bull Bums
Heavenly Nights in Old Castile
Running the Bulls in Pamplona
James Earl Jones in Barcelona
La Boquería Market
Wines of Yesterday in La Rioja
ElBulli, Ferran Adrià and Juli Soler
Legendary Picnics in Roncesvalles
Granada and A Tale of La Alhambra
Gintonics and José Andrés
Culinary Time Travel
With Anthony Bourdain
Jamón Ibérico Knife Artists
Cheese Guru Marino González in Asturias
Sanlúcar de Barrameda: Where God Was Born
Atlantis and the Evening Star

*Available on Amazon in a day or so in the U. S., Spain, the UK, France and other countries.

21/07/2021

Spain, Gerry Dawes, Spanish food, Spanish wine, Spain travel,

21/05/2021

20/05/2021

Please follow and like my new page for my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain - Volume I Foreword by José Andrés Preview (Publication 2021)

Volume I of Gerry Dawes's food, wine, travel and culture adventures in Spain. Foreword: José Andrés

08/02/2021

"And, a photo of the great wine and food commentator, Gerry Dawes, at Alimentaria 2010. He's discoursing on Asturian cheeses (I was invited by the Asturians to speak on their cheeses)."

Photo and comment by the very great author of books on Spanish cuisine, my very long time dear friend Janet Mendel.

Janet and I first went to Albert Raurich's then new Dos Palillos and now, seven years later, Kay and I went Friday night to Raurich's new Dos Pebrots (and ran into Anthony Bourdain, Albert Adrià and Raurich´s Ibérico pig t**s, tetas de cerdo, more or less in that order). Raurich's recipe's at Dos Pebrots are inspired by recipes he has researched as far back as the ancient Egyptians, Romans (a terrific tabletop-made pan omelet with pine nuts, fresh perifollo (chervil) sprigs, the very ancient fermented fish sauce garum; too civilized garum IMHO) that is a star dish and a wonderful Bacchus god epoch derived dish, guisantes con jamón, wonderful tender young pea dish with a broth of Ibérico ham and the yolk of a farmhouse egg as a sauce.