Sanlúcar de Barrameda: Where God Was Born (Prologue by Chef José Andrés): Portions excerpted from Sunset in a Glass : Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain

This book, Sanlúcar de Barrameda: Where God Was Born, grew out of my love affair with this incredible town, my soul town on the planet. Some of it is extracted from t. the chapters on Sanlúcar de Barrameda that appeared in the English version of my book Sunset in a Glass: Adventures of a Food and Wine Road Warrior in Spain. This edition includes several pages of new texs and photographs. It is about 25 pages longer than the original chapters, which were revised in the process.Sunset in a Glass is a collection of nonfiction stories about the adventures of Gerry Dawes, a renowned expert on Spanish cuisine, wine, and travel, and recipient of Spain’s prestigious National Gastronomy Award. Sunset in a Glass is illustrated with more than 160 color and black-and-white photographs that chronicle decades of life and travel throughout Spain. The foreword is written by renowned chef José Andrés. The first edition has received 50 written five-star reviews on Amazon, many of them written by leading culinary figures, authors, and experts on Spain.“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. He has connected with all manner of people working at every level and in every corner of Spain. You can step into a restaurant in the smallest town in Spain, and it turns out they know Gerry somehow.”—José Andrés, chef-restaurateur-humanitarian, Nobel Prize nominee.“In his decades 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.Inspired by the greatest classic writers on Spain—Alexandre Dumas père, Richard Ford, Flaubert, Somerset Maugham, Hemingway, Michener and D. E. Pohren among others--Gerry Dawes has written an entirely original work (you could say sui generis) on Spanish culture, focusing on the people and the places and the deep culture surrounding Spanish food and wine, a unique culture that stretches back thousands of years. If you have any interest in that ancient and fascinating Spanish way of life, or in how and why culinary magicians such as Ferran Adrià or José Andrés have been made into cultural heroes, you will definitely want to read Sunset in a Glass, which is a classic in its own time. "--Allen Josephs, Author of White Wall of Spain and numerous books on Spain and on Ernest Hemingway.“Gerry Dawes has lived, analysed, argued, savoured, prodded, tested, teased and loved his way through Spain’s extraordinary gastronomic heritage for decades. Food as friendship is at the core of this wild, passionate road trip through Spain. This is a masterclass in storytelling - delicious and addictive.”—Gijs van Hensbergen, Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon and Gaudí: A Biography.“Your writing is nothing short of brilliant, lyrical and even poetic prose in places and the content conveyed establishes your credentials and authority. Your knowledge of Spain, its his-tory, culture, traditions, and every aspect of Spanish life is more formidable than any English speaker has ever had, offering the best information anywhere in any language on the subjects covered. Only Hemingway knew and loved Spain as you do. We all await your big book, Homage to Iberia (the authorized sequel to James A. Michener's Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections) , which will provide the kind of map for current and future generations—the kind of map Hemingway gave Michener and Michener gave us.”—Ray Mouton, author of Pamplona: Running the Bulls, Bars, and Barrios in Fiesta de San Fermín. Read more