Sizzling Shrimp with Garlic and Hot Pepper

For many years I served another version of this dish, using giant prawns in their shells. Back in the late 1950s, I prepared them along with several other Spanish dishes for a party held in a Fifth Avenue apartment belonging to a pair of wealthy twins. Among the illustrious guests that night were the poet Allen Ginsberg and the beat generation novelist Jack Kerouac. Everyone liked my food, especially the garlicky prawn dish. In fact, Kerouac was so impresse