Albert Maignan , Green Muse (1895)
I've heard it tastes horrible, but the color...so pretty. Absinthe was referred to in France as "La Fée Verte", or The Green Fairy. Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar Wilde, Édouard Manet and Ernest Hemingway imbibed. A lot.
Traditionally served with ice water and a cube of sugar; the sugar cube (to reduce the bitter taste) is placed on a slotted spoon, and the water is drizzled over the sugar into a glass of absinthe. The water transforms the emerald green liqueur into a milky opalescent color.
With a high alcohol content, and one herbal ingredient (wormwood) thought to be poisonous, the drink was banned in many countries in the earlier part of the twentieth century. A revival has taken place and most of those bans and restrictions have been lifted. I just learned that production of absinthe in the USA resumed in 2007.
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Do you want to get together for a drink, absinthe perhaps? Or I'll settle for a dirty martini.
It is actually legal to produce in the united states since 2007 http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-12-05/news/17273166_1_lance-winters-anise-and-fennel-bottle
St George makes and sold the first legal and arguably best right here in the Bay
Thanks for that correction! Now I'm pea green with curiosity!
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