Christian Drouin Experience - coffee

Café Calva has enjoyed immense popularity in French farms, cabarets and bistros since the 1880s. On the counters of Parisian bistros, cider brandy or Calvados was most often poured directly into the coffee. In working-class housing estates and until the end of the 1970s, unless specified when ordering, coffees were systematically watered down, a ritual that has since tended to disappear. However, nothing predisposed coffee to be married to Calvados, because coffee, discovered in the land of Islam, had spread to a world where it was used as a...