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Friday, 4 January 2008
Absinthe
They just made Absinthe legal in the USA after a long period where it was illegal. We partook of an absinthe ritual on New year's eve. Very interesting.
The directions for the ritual are on the bottle and also on-line. You drip ice water through an sugar cub which turns the absinthe white and cloudy. It smells like licorice. I guess there used to be a whole culture around it. Used by artists and writers and the hip.
Kate, I will never be a big absinthe drinker--though I would like to drink enough to see if it actually does help with creativity--but I'm not a big drinker of any kind and I am on an alcohol free diet--except for the hard cider I got for Chrsitmas, I do intend to drink that soemtime soon! LOL!.
Val, in order to have heard of it, you'd have to have read certain types of literature. Bohemian. I think Van Gogh's craziness and ear-cutting off was attributed, whether correctly or not, to absinthe.
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What is the ritual? I see the ice. But what is the filter for? Who originated this ritual?
The directions for the ritual are on the bottle and also on-line. You drip ice water through an sugar cub which turns the absinthe white and cloudy. It smells like licorice. I guess there used to be a whole culture around it. Used by artists and writers and the hip.
It's supposed to make you more creative. I didn't drink enough of it to tell.
Well I guess you fit all 3 - artists, writers and the hip!
now there's something I had never heard of.....
Kate, I will never be a big absinthe drinker--though I would like to drink enough to see if it actually does help with creativity--but I'm not a big drinker of any kind and I am on an alcohol free diet--except for the hard cider I got for Chrsitmas, I do intend to drink that soemtime soon! LOL!.
Val, in order to have heard of it, you'd have to have read certain types of literature. Bohemian. I think Van Gogh's craziness and ear-cutting off was attributed, whether correctly or not, to absinthe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe
here is the url to Wikipedia's blurb on absinthe which has links to more info about it. I also added it as a link to the post to make it easier.
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