by
Phil Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink.
La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspirati8on due to the presence of wormwood,...