“I can’t wait until we can fire it up,” he says of the “Armagnac continuous still,” which was hand-built by Cain and his team; its kettle is made from stainless-steel, and its columns are forged from ...

A crème caramel is piled with Armagnac prunes to lift the nursery pleasures of set cream and burnt sugar into the adult. There is a Paris-Brest, the hoop of crisped choux pastry crusted with ...