The "green fairy" title might suggest hallucinations, but the absinthe sold today is different from its pre-ban version. The controlled thujone content means the drink doesn't have the feared mind ...

The drink often tasted of licorice or ouzo ... la Fée Verte (the green fairy). Absinthe’s mystique grew when luminaries like Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso and Oscar Wilde made it their poison ...

"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 ...

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 that absinthe ...

Once hailed as the muse of poets, painters and visionaries, this herbaceous, emerald-hued spirit lovingly nicknamed ‘the Green Fairy ... 1700s, absinthe quickly became the French drink ...

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 ...

A story about the history and evolution of absinthe, from 1730 to 1915. The Green Fairy will take you on one ... not just the history of the notorious drink, but the modern day methods of imbibing ...