Evan Rail’s “The Absinthe Forger” takes the reader on a picaresque tour through the world of vintage alcohol collectors in pursuit of a fraudster. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the ...

Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

It was the drink of choice for 19th century painters, poets and writers. Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear while sipping it, Edgar Degas and Pablo Picasso painted it, French poet Paul Verlaine ...

The history of absinthe is long and rich, and contains just enough mythology and controversy to keep things interesting. The Green Fairy, as it was once known, is typically a high-proof spirit that is ...

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Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com In my recent journey to find and make the best cocktails in San ...

"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 ...

From roughly 1860 to 1890, French wine drinkers were under assault. A blight called phylloxera had nearly decimated the country’s vineyards and the nation’s wine industry. What wine remained in shops ...

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Explore all of our favorites at chicagoreader.com/food/reader-bites. The ...

On the preferred potable of Paris’s avant-garde. Left: Edgar Degas, Manet Seated, 1867–70, Pencil, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Right: Edouard Manet, 1870. Photo: Nadar. A few days before ...