Author and absinthe enthusiast Evan Rail says there's a lot of bluster around the drink, but that doesn't make its history any less interesting. The "green fairy", this liquor of choice for Belle ...

la Fée Verte (the green fairy). Absinthe’s mystique grew when luminaries like Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso and Oscar Wilde made it their poison of choice. Poison is exactly what European ...