Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Loved in Paris but banned in 1915 by the French government, absinthe was associated with madness, murder, and the odd seizure.

Tales of the Cocktail and New Orleans are proud to host the opening of the Absinthe Museum of America. It will be the first of its kind in the United States to not only showcase the rare and extensive ...

French absinthe - the drink so notorious that it was banned for 80 years - has been given an EU protected status. The highly potent green drink - widely associated with Belle Epoque artistic figures ...

PARIS – French absinthe makers can finally say what's in the bottle. French authorities banned the liquorice-tasting tipple a century ago because of its alleged hallucinogenic qualities. Authorities ...

Brian Robinson remembers his first sip of absinthe--the potent anise-flavored beverage distilled from herbs--while at a party in Majadahonda, a small town near Madrid, a dozen years ago. "I hated ...

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 ...

Absinthe served in the traditional way at the Armand Guy distillery in Pontarlier, France. Photo Credit: SEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images In my younger years, I did what many in the creative class do.

Henry Samuel has been The Telegraph’s Paris Correspondent since 2007. His 2023 Sarkozy-Gaddafi trial coverage was cited in the European Parliament’s anti-corruption resolution and the French culture ...

Green, incredibly alcoholic and some say mind-altering - these are the qualities that led to absinthe being banned in France almost 100 years ago. But all that's about to change, after the government ...