The following is a from a book written by Lewis Ford called The variety book containing life sketches and reminiscences. Written in 1892. It was in the personal library of the family that made Butterfly Absinthe in Massachusetts. Read Full Story
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Boston University Law Review, Volume 1
1922
In the case of the absinthe initiative, there was plainly present a strong ethical as well as economic basis for the determination to accomplish a great reform, although in French speaking Switzerland, that is to say, in the Cantons of Geneva, Neuchatel and Vaud, the cultivation of the plants from which absinthe is produced together with its manufacture and local as well as export sale, was strongly identified with t... Read Full Story
ABSINTHE, a liqueur or aromatised spirit, prepared by pounding the leaves and flowering tops of various species of wormwood, chiefly Artemisia Absinthium, along with angelica root (Arcftanyelica oßminalis), sweet flag root (Acorus Calamut), the leaves of dittany of Crete (Origanum Dictamnus), star-anise fruit (Illicium anisatum), and other aromatice, and macerating these in alcohol After soaking for about eight days the compound is distilled, yielding an emerald-coloured liquor, to which a pr... Read Full Story
The following is an entry from a British pharmaceutical journal dated 1869.
Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions
By Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain 1869
ABSINTHE.
Much has been written lately in the daily press and medical journals on the effects of absinthe drinking, now becoming so general among all classes in France. The following article first appeared in the ' Pall Mall Gazette ':—
" The indulgence in absinthe which already prevails to a great extent among all classes of Fr... Read Full Story
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AbsintheDevil reviews absinthe and absinthe collectables from Europe including a wide selection of absinthe spoons, absinthe glass, absinthe fountains and absinthe ice water carafes. We strive to offer the highest level of information to both the absintheur and artémisophile. We want to bring back the feeling in Paris during the Belle Epoque or in the absinthe cafes of Montmartre during the peak of absinthes popularity.
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