Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
by Robert J Sadler
Title
Absinthe Makes The Heart Grow Fonder
Artist
Robert J Sadler
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Digital Art - Digital Art
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Thought to be in use as wormwood or it derivative by the Greeks, perhaps even earlier. The 'modern' drink, I understand, originated in Switzerland in 1700s. Absinthe became a popular highly alcoholic beverage in Paris of the 1900s and gained notoriety as the drink of many writers and artists of the day. It is known by several names such as: Grand Wormwood, Wormwood, The Green Fairy and others. It is anise flavored and traditionally faint or chartreuse green. Absinthe was usually diluted with water and sweetened with sugar before drinking. The process of suspending a cube of sugar on a perforated spoon (an Absinthe Spoon) over the drinking glass then heating/melting the sugar may have increased the 'distingue' with which the drink was imbued. Of course here, the old saw: absence make the heart grow fonder is corrupted by the substituting the similar sounding 'absinthe' for 'absence'.
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