Absinthe

May 02, 2007 14:54

Em - Do I remember you talking about this stuff a while ago?


The guy from Carnavale used to drink it.

Absinthe: The American Remix

In praise of the opaque green liqueur beloved by his creative contemporaries, Oscar Wilde once posed the rhetorical question, “What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?”

The prosaic answer, at least for Americans, has long been one of legality: sunsets can be freely enjoyed, but absinthe was forbidden...

Full article at NY Times.
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