Join us for a Saturday afternoon double header booksiging with journalist Sue Strachan featuring The Café Brûlot and art historian Cybèle Gontar featuring A Century on Harmony Street: The Kohlmaier Cabinetmakers of New Orleans. Gontar will be accompanied master furniture craftsman Rupert Kohlmaier himself.
The Café Brûlot examines the cocktail that was born of a legend and has endured through the centuries, showcasing New Orleans’s love of flavored drama. A combination of coffee, liquor, and fire, Café Brûlot also goes by the name Café Brûlot Diabolique, “devilishly incendiary coffee.” Varying somewhat depending on what restaurant makes it, the base ingredients of this unusual after-dinner drink are coffee, brandy, sugar, cinnamon, lemon, oranges, cloves, and sometimes an orange liqueur. Although the drink may have originated in France, Café Brûlot is primarily mixed in New Orleans, making it a unique Crescent City tradition. In this entertaining little book, Sue Strachan delves into the history of the cocktail, the story of its various ingredients, and the customary implements used to serve it.
A Century on Harmony Street: The Kohlmaier Cabinetmakers of New Orleans, published by the Louisiana Museum Foundation, discusses the distinctly Anglo-American style of Kohlmaier furniture, which responded to the early 20th-century zeal for traditional and well-loved Chippendale, Hepplewhite, and Sheraton styles—spurred, in part, by the Colonial Revival.
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Order now. We will be happy to hold your copy or ship it anywhere within the U.S.