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What's green, needs water and is famously misunderstood? If absinthe quickly came to mind, you are so on it. (If, on the other hand, you thought of Kermit the Frog or a Marvel superhero, you had best knuckle down and consult a hipster handbook.)
The favourite quaff of the 19th century's great artists, absinthe is once again having a moment. A distillation of the dangerously toxic wormwood (absinthium), anise and other herbs, absinthe was invented in 1792 by a French doctor with the curiously inappropriate name of Pierre Ordinaire. Also known as "la fee verte" (the green fairy) and the "green curse of France," absinthe has been banned as a dangerous substance in the United States and France since 1915 (where it has been replaced by the popular, non-narcotic Pernod).
Its revival has been credited to the Icelandic art rocker Björk and her band, the Sugar Cubes, who, after playing in the tiny village of Dacice in Czechoslovakia, where sugar cubes were invented, stumbled upon a traditional Czech version of the bitter aperitif called Hill's Absinth. The story is that she and her Cubes smuggled out a few bottles and told a British rock mag about it. Soon, absinthe became the outré drink of choice at chic clubs in Britain, where the liquor had never been officially banned.
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