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The Absinthe Drinkers (Movie)

Due for release next year, "The Absinthe Drinkers" is a "story of a woman artist’s struggle to succeed in the male-dominated art world of 19th century Paris and Florence." Here's the link to the movie's website. A more detailed but unauthorized plot description is here .

Posted by Dave Trippel on September 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM in Absinthe, Film | Permalink

Tea advertising (article)

Randy Altman, "The Role of Advertising in the Tea Trade," Tea & Coffee Trade Journal 176/4: 93-

Posted by David Fahey on May 26, 2009 at 01:46 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

British chocolate industry

Craig Sams and Jo Fairley, Sweet Dreams: the Story of Green & Blacks (London: Random House Business, 2008).

Posted by David Fahey on March 27, 2009 at 08:38 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

Prohibition and vagrancy in early 20th-cent. Finland (article)

Essi Tiittanen, "Drinking, immorality, and minor offenses: vagrant life in Oulu during prohibition," Faravid 31 (2007): 93-110.  In Finnish. 

Posted by David Fahey on November 19, 2008 at 03:29 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

Absinthe (article)

Kima Cargill, "Distilling the Scientific Truth about Absinthe," Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 11/1 (March 2008): 87-99.

Posted by David Fahey on July 27, 2008 at 12:39 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

English whiskies to challenge Scotland's and Ireland's

For the first time in a century England is producing its own malt whiskey. The distillery is located at the edge of the Norfolk Fens. For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on March 10, 2008 at 07:10 PM in Absinthe, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Whiskey | Permalink

Jared Gurfein and the battle to sell absinthe in the USA

The Washington Post tells the story how entrepreneur Jared Gurfein waged a legal battle to sell absinthe in the USA. For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on December 10, 2007 at 08:06 PM in Absinthe, United States | Permalink

Revival of absinthe

Absinthe is staging a revival, including drink made in the United States. For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on December 4, 2007 at 09:08 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

Absinthe and bohemian modernism

Edward Rothstein offers an illustrated essay, "Absinthe Returns in a Glass Half Full of Mystique and Misery," New York Times, 12 November 2007. Absinthe is now legal again in the USA and Western Europe. For more, see here. Rothstein suggests for further reading:

Jad Adams, Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle
Barnaby Conrad III, Absinthe: History in a Bottle
Phil Baker, Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History
and two websites, feeverte.net and oxygenee.com

Posted by David Fahey on November 12, 2007 at 01:46 PM in Absinthe | Permalink

"Green Fairy" returns

After almost a century of illegality, absinthe--the so-called green fairy--has returned to barrooms. The USA (which banned the wormwood-based drink in 1912) has approved the importation of two brands. Switzerland, the land where absinthe originated, legalized its sale in 2005. For more, see here.

Posted by David Fahey on October 14, 2007 at 08:17 PM in Absinthe, Switzerland, United States | Permalink