Few cities do spooky like New Orleans. Mix Anne Rice’s vampires, aboveground burials and a tradition of jazz funerals and you get a city undaunted by death. Mix gin, vermouth and absinthe and you get ...

Chicagoans are bitter. We’re other things, too: brave, resourceful, imaginative, animated—but we’re bitter as hell. Maybe it’s the winters. They’re not as bad as those in other midwestern cities, but ...

Made popular during the late nineteenth century, absinthe was the aphrodisiac of La Belle Époque. It was portrayed as a psychoactive drug and the alcoholic drink of choice among some of the greatest ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When it comes to different types of liquors, there are none that are as perhaps widely condemned and misunderstood as absinthe. Long having ...