As the (over-age adults of the) world celebrate International Absinthe Day, we’re taking a look at the history and present ...

la Fée Verte (the green fairy). Absinthe’s mystique grew when luminaries like Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso and Oscar Wilde made it their poison of choice. Poison is exactly what European ...

"Step back into the belle époque and beckon the green fairy: absinthe is having a renaissance," said Victoria Brzezinski in The Times. The heady spirit has been "reappearing in drinking dens" up ...

The wormwood plant from which absinthe is made is not native to Switzerland, but probably arrived with the Romans.

Like most good college students, we had a raucous four months studying abroad in Europe where we discovered nude beaches, smoking indoors and the "green fairy," absinthe. So when we heard about ...

The 1,500-member marching group venerates the Green Fairy, the personification of the reputedly hallucinogenic liqueur absinthe. The 7-year-old parade’s romantic 2025 theme is “Absinthe Makes ...

Classics such as Engadine nut cake, Emmental cheese, Epiphany cake, absinthe, cervelat, and Aromat are all featured. However, not everything considered “typically Swiss” made the cut. “You can’t ...

A story about the history and evolution of absinthe, from 1730 to 1915. The Green Fairy will take you on one hell of a trippy ride through time as it details not just the history of the notorious ...

Why did absinthe get such a foothold in the belle époque? It’s all from the myth of the green fairy. Due to the drink’s medicinal origins and sky-high proof, there’s long been the belief ...

Depicted in works of Impressionist painters, blamed for acts of brazen insanity, and now resurging in bars across the continent, absinthe is one of the most mysterious beverages to hit bar shelves.