For New Year’s Eve, adventurous celebrants will keep a cork in the Champagne bottle and switch to another French import – absinthe. The mysterious “Green Fairy,” or Fee Verte, has a high alcohol ...

It looks like Listerine and tastes like licorice. It might get you seduced by a vampire, like in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or make you spawn a witch, as in the Broadway show Wicked. It might turn you ...

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, becoming ...

You might know French Impressionist Edgar Degas for his paintings and sculptures of delicate dancers. While those works made him famous, the 1876 canvas L'Absinthe made him notorious. This somber café ...