Absinthe became popular during France’s Belle-Epoque period in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This also was the time of the decimation of France’s wine industry by the phylloxera pest. As an ...

The ban on absinthe in 1915 paved the way for the rise of pastis, a beloved French aperitif that remains a cultural icon ...

He tracked down and translated a Swiss absinthe recipe from 1871, and found a French absinthe still from the 1890s and had it shipped from overseas. To make the absinthe, he needed anise ...