Navarra, Spain: Kingdom of Flavors visits New York and Boston 2009 Wine Expo.

Prepare your palate for Piquillo red peppers and rosado wine! For nine days, January 17 through January 25, Navarra The Kingdom of Flavors, Spain will visit Boston and New York for a gastronomic celebration. Restaurants in New York and in Boston will offer menus highlighting Navarra’s unique traditional dishes and local wines. Chefs like Enrique Martínez from Navarra will prepare tantalizing cuisine nurturing a cooking style of complex flavors and mixed textures. Menus will include Navarran dishes such as, Iberian pork cheeks, glazed pork belly and fine potato purée, Filet of hake on a base of cream of leeks and foie, cordon of beet and strawberries, Griddled prawns and sautéed seasonal mushrooms with pine nut praline…and for dessert, White chocolate soup with crushed blood orange and pink grapefruit ice and Sweet milk curd mousse with coffee gelatine and rum zabaglione. Compliment these exciting flavours with a Navarrese wine, a region some say produce the best wineries in Spain. Choose a wine from the Bodegas Inurrieta, Monjardin, Alzania vineyards to accompany an entrée, tapas or some fabulous Navarra cheese — Roncal or Idiazabal.