Berenguer Family Paella

FOOD: Angel & Joan Berenguer

PHOTOGRAPHER: Lindsay Tierney

CHRONICLER: Henry Patterson

July, 2023

Paella is a community meal, and our Spanish friends Angel and Joan Berenguer loved the opportunity to make paella for fifty at our July Jim Haynes dinner party.  The Berenguer grandchildren helped with the preparation, learning the lesson Angel and Joan relished providing about the spirit of this tradition.

This was our biggest Jim Haynes gathering to date, as more of you have taken seriously our urging to invite others we’d never meet otherwise. 

I was particularly pleased to introduce Chey Porto and Lola Sanchez, two young women who aspire to own and operate coffee cafés.  They have decided to form a partnership!  Jim Haynes had many such tales, business partnerships, relationships and marriages that began at his dinners. 

Written by Henry Patterson