New to the neighborhood, Wormwood introduces itself as an absinthe-focused bar. After greeting me, Ben Marquart busts out a beginner’s lesson on absinthe. He decides Le Frappe is a good place to start ...

Marielle Songy is a New Orleans food writer and her new book, “The Absinthe Frappe,” is the latest in LSU Press’s series about famous New Orleans cocktails. Songy explores the history of absinthe, ...

Shrouded in mystique and just a touch of mayhem, absinthe is the main ingredient in the drink that is the focus of a book signing and sipping event April 17 at Garden District Book Shop. "The Absinthe ...

Wolfing down a Lucky Dog on the corner of Bourbon and Toulouse streets. Stumbling up to the darkened Laffite’s Blacksmith Shop in search of one last frozen drink. Sipping a hurricane in the Pat ...

Absinthe’s history mirrors the way it’s meant to be prepared: a mix of the misunderstood and the legitimately unusual. For most of its existence, the spirit has been slandered, ostracized and, in ...

The “Green Fairy” was everywhere at this year’s Tales of the Cocktail festival here in New Orleans, sprinkling intoxicating pixie dust at numerous seminars, tastings and parties. I’m talking, of ...

Were you to line up famous scapegoats, along with the biblical Eve, hapless Cubs fan Steve Bartman and Mrs. O’Leary’s arsonist cow, you’d have to give a nod to absinthe, the bitter, ...

From the height of its popularity in the 19th century to its modern revival, absinthe has a long and storied history. A favorite pastime of artists, writers, and bohemians, the spirit known as "the ...

The earthquake: you withstood it. The hurricane: you endured it. What you need: an order-restoring salve that also works for welcoming back those rays of sunshine. Yes, a frothy absinthe slushie ought ...