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 ...

Grande Absente absinthe // Photo by In the world of spirits, absinthe tends to sit in a bit of a mythical spot. It conjures ...

The "green fairy", this liquor of choice for Belle ... by Edgar Degas to Pablo Picasso's The Glass of Absinthe. It was said to have hallucinogenic properties that could spur creative genius ...

Some readers might recoil in horror at a dose of absinthe in their drink, but a rising fascination with herbal spirits has ...

A story about the history and evolution of absinthe, from 1730 to 1915. The Green Fairy will take you on one hell of a trippy ride through time as it details not just the history of the notorious ...