Last month, an intimate group gathered in New York for a storytelling dining experience celebrating the life and times of champagne’s own Charles Heidsieck, also fondly called “Champagne Charlie.” Heidsieck was the man who brought bubbly to America in the mid 19th-century, so each course of dinner designed by “a razor, a shiny knife,” made reference to a different time in the man of the hour’s life, of course paired with lots of bubbly. For example, a plate of duck was inspired by the man’s hobby of duck hunting in New York.
Thierry Roset, chef de cave, and Charles Heidsieck’s director Romain Pianet, hosted the small and intimate dinner at Scott Conant’s Culinary Suite in SoHo giving insight and words of poetic history through the tales of Charles Hiedsieck’s life.
Charles Heidsieck Champagne’s “An Evening with Charles”Photo by Rose Callahan
