The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails by Paul Owens and Paul Nathan with drink recipes provided by Dave Herlong is a fascinating read for anyone in the business of drinking or serving. It is fun to read, has great drink recipes, and is the perfect bathroom book or [...]
The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails by Paul Owens and Paul Nathan with drink recipes provided by Dave Herlong is a fascinating read for anyone in the business of drinking or serving. It is fun to read, has great drink recipes, and is the perfect bathroom book or gift for your college-aged friends or serious drinking enthusiasts. Since I am an ex Vegas bartender, cocktail waitress and cabana girl, and a former cocktail-drinking lady, this was a wonderful book for me to receive and review for my blog. The book is a dash of history, two parts trivia, and all about serving up Absinthe in 100 or so different ways. If you have no idea what Absinthe is, please let me give you a mini lesson via YouTube videos.
Have you ever heard of The Green Goddess?
I think if my friends and I drank Absinthe back in the day we would have gotten into some serious trouble. I once drank three shots of Everclear in a row, and ended up throwing my bike into the Red Cedar River for fun. Ooops. I’ve always wanted to try Absinthe, and I held off on writing this review for a few days to see if I could find some Absinthe in time to make a drink from the book. I chickened out on it, mainly because I’m lame, old, and it may make my heart explode, but the desire was there. Just look at how strong and surprisingly yummy this recipe sounds from the book. I’m drunk just from reading about how strong it is.
Lemonilla
1 ounce Grande Absente Absinthe (138 proof, omg!)
1 ounce Limoncello
1 ounce Absolut Vanilia
Absinthe is now legal in the United States for the first time since 1912. It was outlawed before cocaine and heroin was. It was lethal in large doses. Chemists believed it caused seizures, hallucinations, and even brain damage. Despite all this, some of the most famous artists and writers used it, including Van Gogh, Baudelaire, Hemingway, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Degas. If you pick up a copy of this book you can find out much more about the history of it.
When the Absinthe backlash started in the 1890s, Edgar Degas’ masterpiece L’Absinthe, pictured above, was booed off the auction block at Christie’s in London. I laughed when I read that.
A French commercial advertising Absinthe which sorta freaked me out - which you may enjoy watching.
To purchase your copy of the book, go here.
Check out Paul Nathan’s website here.
And, for those who are ready to drink it, visit the self-proclaimed “first Absinthe store in the US” which can be found here.
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