"Absinthe is special. It's the only spirit that was banned in almost every country around the world for most of a century," ...

There’s also a recipe section of popular absinthe cocktails. Songy discusses and signs the book at 6 p.m. Monday, April 17, at Garden District Book Shop (find tickets at gardendistrictbookshop.com).

The Absinthe Suissesse first emerges in 1900 ... It’s unclear who first added the milk, but all signs point to Brennan’s Restaurant in New Orleans, which seems to have done so to evoke ...

We have absinthe?!” They had some of the same questions that underpin the mythology surrounding the spirit, such as “Isn’t that illegal?” and “Doesn’t it make you hallucinate?” ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...

Absinthe, often called “the green fairy,” is an emerald-hued spirit steeped in myth, history and allure. It has captured the imaginations of artists, writers and connoisseurs for centuries ...

No, it won't make your hallucinate. Yes, it is delicious. Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. There is no spirit whose ...

It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon and I am trying to get a good louche going, the cloudy effect that occurs when cold water is slowly added to absinthe and its essential oils rouse from the ...

It consists of one jigger of absinthe, poured into a flute of champagne. It is widely regarded as terrible. “Yeah, it’s really bad,” says Arthur Boothe, who orders it every time he sees it ...

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