Here’s the first cousin to the electric fork, the USB absinthe spoon. The makers of the prototype you see above are looking for volunteers to test this precision instrument, used to hold a sugar cube ...

Now Absinthe is illegal in the US, apparently we have issues with anything that makes you see a glowing green fairy. The US has sort of become the prude country and well, anything different scares us.

Absinthe, aka “The Green Fairy,” has been the stuff of legends for generations of American cocktail drinkers. The green spirit, purported to be psychoactive and cause hallucinations, was considered ...

One of my favorite parts of tending bar is clearing up misconceptions about alcohol. The biggest one has to be the old saw about beer before liquor or vice versa. (Answer: It doesn’t matter, except ...

This spoon is used to prepare absinthe, an alcoholic drink once believed to produce psychedelic effects. Historically, absinthe contained trace amounts of the chemical thujone, which acts as a GABAA ...

WASHINGTON — They called it the green fairy, and they said it could drive you to peaks of manic creativity — that is, if it didn’t first drive you mad. Countries banned it. Teetotalers reviled it.

Absinthe, often called “the green fairy,” is an emerald-hued spirit steeped in myth, history and allure. It has captured the imaginations of artists, writers and connoisseurs for centuries, becoming ...

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Matt Mancuso was disappointed. He'd heard so much about absinthe in his college years and even before that – soaking up, by a sort of cultural osmosis, its arcane mythology, the tales of its use and ...

Jean Lanfray, 32, a laborer from the little village of Commugny, Switzerland, rose before dawn on August 28, 1905, and started his morning with two glasses of absinthe. He did not stop drinking for ...