ABSINTHE
Every night at 11 PM is L'Heure Verte
An Ongoing Celebration of Tastes and TruthsThis Celebration seeks to dispel the myths surrounding this misunderstood spirit; expose an interested public to the smoothness, complexity and variety of tastes superior absinthes offer; and illustrate the proper way to drink them.
* At the end of the eighteenth century, the drink was invented by one Pierre Ordinaire, a French doctor who distilled wormwood and other herbs in an alcoholic base as a remedy for his patients.
* At the end of the nineteenth century, absinthe was embraced by the literary bohemian crowd who gathered in European cafes and claimed the Green Fairy (La Fee Verte) as their muse and inspiration.
* The end of the twentieth century brought to an end nearly 100 years of nonsensical prohibition in parts of Europe. As a result, a new fin de siecle in crowd began discovering the delights of the absinthe drink once again.
*Modern science triumphed over historic propaganda vindicating fine pre-ban absinthe of its alleged evils, leading to the U.S. ban being lifted December 2007.
Inspired by Damian Hevia & Becky Cash
INFO: Ted Breaux / Viridian Spirits
Legendre Herbsaint historian Jay Hendrickson
The Sazerac Company
AvantGarden
Social Lounge, Art Center
and Absinthe Bar
411 Westheimer, Houston TX 77006
INFO online: http://www.oxygenee.com/absinthe-america/legalization.html
http://www.feeverte.net/
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/
http://www.absinthe-review.net/index.html
