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 ...