There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

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 ...

People are always intrigued by what they can't have. Celebrated in the 2001 movie "Moulin Rouge," Absinthe is banned in the United States and some European countries, though consumption of and ...

These days, absinthe has become synonymous with forgotten nights in Paris and foxy green fairies. With my knowledge of the infamous green drink limited to pop culture myths and Moulin Rouge, I decided ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday is National Absinthe Day — a good time to celebrate the Green Fairy, its legendary nickname. Absinthe is said to have originated in Switzerland in the late 18th century and by the mid-19th ...

SAUMUR, France - Steam rising from floor vents swirls around the base of century-old stills in the Combier distillery in the Loire valley. Jean-Pierre Plisson, a veteran of nearly four decades at the ...

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 ...