Certain spirits have a spicy history but none come spicier than absinthe which so scared Parisians that they banned it and then were followed by practically every other country.
And now the drinks writer Evan Rail has detailed another chapter in the sordid history of the green fairy with The Absinthe Forger, “An astonishing true crime story about an eccentric grifter who blew up the lucrative black market for vintage bottles of the legendary drink of artistic renegades, absinthe . . .”
