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 ...

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 ...

People are always intrigued by what they can't have. Celebrated in the 2001 movie "Moulin Rouge," Absinthe is banned in the United States and some European countries, though consumption of and ...

Absinthe, which inspiration-seeking artists once drunk in excess, is not a psychedelic beverage after all, say international researchers. Instead, they say, the drink's reputation is down to nothing ...

Tucked along West Fourth Street in downtown, Péché has carved out a niche as one of Austin’s rare absinthe bars, pairing ...

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 ...

A researcher examines the bad press surrounding absinthe which led to its ban in France in 1915, while drawing parallels with ...

Our correspondent reports on the return of a forbidden nectar. Oscar Wilde once remarked, "A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of ...

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 ...