~ La Fee Verte ~ Recipe

How to make it

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• Place one shot of absinthe in a lovely glass.
• Place slotted absinthe spoon over top of glass.
• Place one sugar cube atop the spoon.
• Pour ice water over sugar cube,slowly.
• This will cloud the drink giving it an opalescence,and allowing the flavours and herbal aromas to blossom.
• This is thought to have a aura of illicitness, mysterious,and mind altering,coined as everyting from an aphrodisiac to a poison...perhaps producing a lucid drunkenness,a painkiller,if you will.
• Now if you want death in the afternoon,one could do as Hemingway and pour one jigger of absinthe into a Champagne flute,add chilled Champagne until it developes the louche and then drink four to five of these very slowly.
• ~but~
• Surely...one would not think that the 'holy trinity'...Wormwood,Anise,and Fennel would make one crazy,a man,a ferocious beast...nor,a martyr of a woman...a menaces to the future of the country...Ahh! I think not!
• All artists,poets,and writers of the 19th,and 20th century can not be all wrong.
• I could set it a flame...but, I'm not Bohemian.
• ~ Enjoy... L'heure verte...The Green Hour ~