Here’s the first cousin to the electric fork, the USB absinthe spoon. The makers of the prototype you see above are looking for volunteers to test this precision instrument, used to hold a sugar cube ...

This spoon is used to prepare absinthe, an alcoholic drink once believed to produce psychedelic effects. Historically, absinthe contained trace amounts of the chemical thujone, which acts as a GABAA ...

Now Absinthe is illegal in the US, apparently we have issues with anything that makes you see a glowing green fairy. The US has sort of become the prude country and well, anything different scares us.

Absinthe, aka “The Green Fairy,” has been the stuff of legends for generations of American cocktail drinkers. The green spirit, purported to be psychoactive and cause hallucinations, was considered ...

Pour 3/4 cup syrup into medium bowl. Mix in absinthe and lime juice for base. DO AHEAD Absinthe base can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. For each drink, fill cocktail shaker with crushed ...

It's inspirational genius; it's the green fairy; it's evil in a glass. It's absinthe. If you saw the movie "Moulin Rouge," you probably noticed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sipping the glowing green ...

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Matt Mancuso was disappointed. He'd heard so much about absinthe in his college years and even before that – soaking up, by a sort of cultural osmosis, its arcane mythology, the tales of its use and ...