As with every variety of alcoholic spirit, it should hardly come as a surprise that absinthe has its own national holiday.

The Green Fairy returns—this time in The Volunteer State.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two glasses of green absinthe with sugar cubes, and sprigs surrounding, on a texturized, light ...

There's something romantic about absinthe — that naturally green liquor derived from wormwood and herbs like anise or fennel. Vincent Van Gogh and Oscar Wilde drank it. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and ...

Imagine if suddenly you could walk into your local Walgreens, plunk down a couple of twenties, and walk out with a gram of pink Peruvian flake. That, or something very much like it, happened last year ...

People are always intrigued by what they can't have. Celebrated in the 2001 movie "Moulin Rouge," Absinthe is banned in the United States and some European countries, though consumption of and ...

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 ...

SAUMUR, France - Steam rising from floor vents swirls around the base of century-old stills in the Combier distillery in the Loire valley. Jean-Pierre Plisson, a veteran of nearly four decades at the ...

Does absinthe contain any drugs? Will you start hallucinating green fairies after a couple of sips? The myths and misinformation surrounding this potent herbal concoction are many. But which ones hold ...