The U.S. has become an unlikely homebase for absinthe's new avant-garde. Mixing a distinct sense of American innovation with tradition, the country's distillers are shaping the modern identity of this…
Simple, icy and strong, the frappé is a less fussy alternative to the pomp and circumstance of traditional absinthe service.
In Prague, where there were once rumors of wormwood-induced phantasms and pyrotechnic flair, there is now a budding scene of absinthe connoisseurship. The Wall Street Journal explores the bar scene's…
(n.) Used in the ritual of preparing absinthe, this perforated spoon sits atop a glass of absinthe to hold a sugar cube so that ice-cold water can be poured over…
The title of Hemingway’s 1932 novel Death in the Afternoon is both a direct reference to the gruesome finale of Spanish bullfights, and a more oblique one about his mediations…
A pre-Prohibition era drink thought to be devoted to rousing oneself in the morning.
