Absinthe beguiled Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso, Wilde—and a modern-day swindler who tricked fellow devotees of the drink.

Based on a true crime story, a new book by Prague-based author Evan Rail is a deep-dive into the mind-bending mystique of the ...

If you've ever had a Death in the Afternoon cocktail or even heard of it, you might have wondered why it has such a morbid ...

The first part of the answer is that absinthe is a distillation of alcohol with botanicals, such as anise, fennel and ...

The drinker would die of alcohol poisoning first ... 1890s and had it shipped from overseas. To make the absinthe, he needed anise, wormwood, and fennel, and he sourced the wormwood from Poland.

It’s true. Cincinnati had its devotees of “La Fee Verte,” the “Green Fairy” so beloved of habitués of the Parisian demi-monde. According to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette [4 February 1894]: ...