Few spirits have a more mysterious and convoluted reputation than absinthe. This Swiss spirit is nicknamed "la fée verte" or ...

Absinthe; history in a bottle', by Barnaby Conrad, and 'The book of absinthe; a cultural history' by Phil Baker, or to www.oxygenee.com for more elaborate descriptions of the history of absinthe ...

In order to understand absinthe, you really have to look at this drink’s history and how it fell out of fashion not to mention the dark years as an illicit substance. You may have heard that ...

However, this article is concerned primarily with the history of absinthe and parallels of this history with that of tobacco. 1 Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...