Despite sampling nearly every brand of absinthe available for sale in the United States, I have yet to see any green fairies outside of the LGBT contingent at the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. This ...

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In “Caribbean Cocktails: Drinks and Bites from the Afro-Latino Diaspora” (Ten Speed Press, $24), Nelson German, the chef-owner of Oakland, California’s Afro-Latino and Dominican restaurants alaMar and ...

Absinthe, enjoyed louched and opalescent from an ornate fountain or slipped into a complex cocktail, has steadily been gaining popularity with each year since it regained legal status in America in ...

Made popular during the late nineteenth century, absinthe was the aphrodisiac of La Belle Époque. It was portrayed as a psychoactive drug and the alcoholic drink of choice among some of the greatest ...

Composite image of a bottle of absinthe with two cocktails - Static Media / Shutterstock / Getty When it comes to different types of liquors, there are none that are as perhaps widely condemned and ...

If you’re a big absinthe drinker and can’t get enough of historic paraphernalia, then you need to treat yourself to a classy absinthe fountain. But not just any piece will do to honor the Green Fairy.

Erik Rust was first tempted by the green fairy in 2000, on vacation in Spain. That”s where Rust, general manager at Bistro Beaujolais in Carmel, first got a taste for absinthe, the anise-based spirit ...

FEW drinks carry a reputation like that of absinthe. Once thought to contain psychoactive hallucinogens, it was christened ‘the green fairy’ due to its pale green colour and the supposed effects 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 ...