Sunbeams shot through the forest, lighting up the wispy fog on the path ahead. For over an hour I’d been walking up the mountain trail without seeing a soul, marching to the off-kilter orchestras of ...

MOUTIER, Switzerland -- Absinthe, the drink banned almost a century ago as "madness in a bottle," is making a comeback. The Swiss, who first distilled absinthe, legalized it last month, hoping to ...

2004-11-04 04:00:00 PDT Couvet, Switzerland-- For three years Claude-Alain Bugnon has competed with his wife for space in the unfinished concrete basement of their home here, she to do laundry, he to ...

The Green Fairy was friend to many including Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway. However, the origins of the great muse are somewhat surprising. Drawing its power from four simple ...

For three years, Claude-Alain Bugnon has competed with his wife for space in the unfinished concrete basement of their home here, she to do laundry, he to make absinthe. With plastic containers of ...

When you think of absinthe, thoughts of the green fairy, hallucinations and late 19th century artists like Hemmingway, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh are probably top of mind. But, with the rise of ...

These are the findings of a study into the origins of absinthe’s key ingredient conducted by the Botanical Garden of Neuchâtel and Geneva’s Botanical Garden, among others. “Uncultivated wormwood ...