Absinthe, a wormwood-based spirit with a storied history of alleged hallucinations and madness, was banned in the U.S. in ...

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The French Quarter’s ‘witchy’ restaurant Tatlo has reopened with Filippino dishes and abinsthe cocktails concocted as ...

Imagine if suddenly you could walk into your local Walgreens, plunk down a couple of twenties, and walk out with a gram of pink Peruvian flake. That, or something very much like it, happened last year ...

Absinthe’s history mirrors the way it’s meant to be prepared: a mix of the misunderstood and the legitimately unusual. For most of its existence, the spirit has been slandered, ostracized and, in ...

The Green Fairy, once the drink of choice for the likes of van Gogh and Zola, is being poured with panache along the French-Swiss border. Ice-cold water pours from an absinthe fountain into a glass of ...

Perhaps you already have your own absinthe story. You drank it in New Orleans one foggy night, too full of fumes to remember much aside from the cloudy green swirl of the drink as water drip-dropped ...

Scared to meet the Green Fairy after a pour of absinthe? Don’t be. Though absinthe is the subject of many nicknames and stories, it’s essentially just an aromatic, high-proof alcohol that has been ...

Does absinthe contain any drugs? Will you start hallucinating green fairies after a couple of sips? The myths and misinformation surrounding this potent herbal concoction are many. But which ones hold ...

Absinthe Day falls on March 5—a perfect opportunity to celebrate the green potent drink made from the wormwood plant, which has a big reputation in Europe. The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva, 1901 ...