la Fée Verte (the green fairy). Absinthe’s mystique grew when luminaries like Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso and Oscar Wilde made it their poison of choice. Poison is exactly what European ...

"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 ...

We would spend early evenings at galleries or book signings, enjoying the art as much as the ... reputation — including the green fairy myths that go along with absinthe drinking culture.