Our ritual involved shooting a shot of the green fairy, white-knuckling the bar ... after many years of estrangement. Just in time for the renaissance of the drink, might I add. Back in the day, and ...

"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 ...