His vast collection features hundreds of antiques-absinthe drip spoons, bottles, and absinthe fountains, all on loan to the Southern Food & Beverage Museum, forming La Galerie de l’Absinthe. But this is a fallacy, according to New Orleans-born real estate title abstractor Ray Bordelon, an avid absinthe product collector and aficionado of absinthe history. That mystique swirls around thujone, a chemical found in Grand Wormwood ( Artemisia absinthium), long claimed to be a hallucinogenic. “The folklore alone is amazing,” said Millstone Spirits’ Robert Cassell, a founder of Philadelphia Distillers, the first distiller on the East Coast to legally make the spirit. But before you sip your trendy cocktail, you might want to know what precipitated the leave of absinthe. Most spirits shops carry bottles of absinthe, including Toulouse Red and Toulouse Green, from Atelier Vie, a craft distillery in New Orleans Vieux Carre, from Philadelphia Grande Absente and Lucid, from France and Mephisto, imported from Austria. The typically 140-proof spirit, also known as “the green fairy,” is an anise-flavored liquor distilled with herbs and botanicals, including wormwood, fennel, lemon balm, and star anise. In 2007, after a 95-year ban, absinthe became legal again in the U.S. And, perhaps most infamously, Van Gogh cut off his ear after overindulging. Frankenstein was written while Mary Shelley was in its grasp.
Toulouse-Lautrec carried his stash in a hollowed-out cane. At Doe’s Eat Place in Baton Rouge, cocktail history buff (and bartender and head chef) George Krause offers a dose of the Green Fairy.Įrnest Hemingway smuggled it into Cuba.
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