Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was in my twenties, all my friends were artists; Some were painters, some were sculptors, and others were writers and ...

March 5, don’t you know, is National Absinthe Day. Well, that’s the word on the street — the Wormwood Society, devoted to all things absinthe-y, doesn’t say a thing about it. Rimbaud loved it, so that ...

Yesterday, we blogged about how you can make distilled absinthe, with links to websites that either sell stills or provide directions for creating homemade stills. But since distilling alcohol without ...

derives its name from a type of wormwood species called Artemisia absinthium. This green liquor's notorious reputation partially stems from the fact that bohemian artists in the 19th century believed ...

Named in a similar (morbid) spirit as the Corpse Reviver and Death in the Afternoon, this New Orleans-born, absinthe-laced twist on a gin martini is best served very cold in a very cold glass. If you ...

"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 and ...

Few cities do spooky like New Orleans. Mix Anne Rice’s vampires, aboveground burials and a tradition of jazz funerals and you get a city undaunted by death. Mix gin, vermouth and absinthe and you get ...