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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No, it won't make your hallucinate. Yes, it is delicious. Sunyixun / Getty Images There is no spirit whose history is more steeped ...

Few drinks have a reputation like absinthe. Banned in some countries for almost a century, the drink was supposedly a source of madness and crime, even blamed for artist Vincent van Gogh chopping off ...

Does absinthe contain any drugs? Will you start hallucinating green fairies after a couple of sips? The myths and misinformation surrounding this potent herbal concoction are many. But which ones hold ...

Imagine if suddenly you could walk into your local Walgreens, plunk down a couple of twenties, and walk out with a gram of pink Peruvian flake. That, or something very much like it, happened last year ...

The best absinthe distilled in Canada is made on P.E.I., and you can only buy it on the Island. That's what the judges had to say at the Canadian Artisan Spirit Competition. They gave the prize to ...

Pour the absinthe, sugar (the quantity will need to be adjusted according to the brand of absinthe, as they vary greatly in sweetness), and the water into a blender. Blend for a moment to dissolve the ...

Absinthe’s history mirrors the way it’s meant to be prepared: a mix of the misunderstood and the legitimately unusual. For most of its existence, the spirit has been slandered, ostracized and, in ...

Were you to line up famous scapegoats, along with the biblical Eve, hapless Cubs fan Steve Bartman and Mrs. O’Leary’s arsonist cow, you’d have to give a nod to absinthe, the bitter, ...

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 ...

There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

Absinthe Day falls on March 5—a perfect opportunity to celebrate the green potent drink made from the wormwood plant, which has a big reputation in Europe. The Absinthe Drinker by Viktor Oliva, 1901 ...