The Cognac Film Festival: 13 Films the Cognac World Would Make Every great cognac house has a story worth telling on screen. A founder who crossed an ocean. A family split between tradition and ambition. A barrel hunter who found something he was never meant to find. A Norwegian who ended up in Jarnac. A [...]
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We set ourselves a small rule: invent three cognac cocktails that, as far as we can tell, have never been made before. We web searched every recipe. What survived is built around three landscapes of the Charentes: sea, hayfield, and forest.
Cognac cream soup is real, and it is better than it sounds on paper. The first time someone suggested finishing a pot of cream soup with Cognac, I pictured a heavy hand and a boozy lunch. What you get, if you use a light touch, is something else entirely, a familiar bowl of comfort with [...]
