I took 21 credits each semester of my senior year. I soon curtailed my habit of blowing off class and only doing some of the assignments – and became an exemplary student. Whether you prefer to call it a carrot-on-a-stick or a full-on bribe, it worked. And I think this was their last-ditch (and generous!) effort to help me suck it up before they just tossed in the towel and let me sink on my own. You see, I was a lousy student, headed for mountains of mediocrity. Lucky me!īack in the day (like, when people still used Travelers Cheques) my parents struck a deal with me: finish college and they’d pick up the tab on airfare to and from Europe.
Quite greedily, I’ve managed to sample a taste of almost all the recipes Caroline makes for Pickled Plum before they’re published. Heck, I haven’t even introduced myself yet.Īnd, while you don’t hear from me much, I work behind the scenes at Pickled Plum. Aussie Justin did the ordering.Īfter he dipped a large sugarcube in the wormwood infused absinthe – then placed the drenched cube on the slotted absinthe spoon atop the glass and set it on fire, I could see the bartender shaking his head.Ī patron at the table sitting next to us said, “You’re doing that wrong.”īut maybe I should back up to the beginning.
#Green fairy absinthe full
We made our way to a dark bar with illuminated bottles full of greenish spirits on display. “Yeah – you burn a sugarcube and drop it into this green drink – and you might hallucinate green fairies,” he said in all earnestness. ( In all fairness, I didn’t know he was wrong about some of this stuff until later.) at the time, it wasn’t widely legal), he then went a bit off the rails. It is a drink – a spirit actually – and 2. You see, in the late 90s, absinthe wasn’t legal in the US or much of Europe, but it was A-OK in Spain a fact Justin the Aussie barbarian knew well.Īnd while he was right about those facts (1. He had downed, like, three since I arrived at the small terrace bar in Plaça de George Orwell in Barcelona’s Barri Gòtic (Gothic Quarter) 30 minutes prior. And I was wondering how many beers he had managed to consume before I met up with him.
“The green fairy,” said the Australian with the nose that sat sideways on his face from one too many rugby scrums. Exquisite flavor – and makes a great gift! Image by: Absinthe – 10 Facts and Myths About The Green Fairy Learn all about absinthe, and how a once celebrated spirit went from banned substance to reborn. Whether you think of Absinthe as a creativity spawning elixir, or just a super delicious drink, there’s no denying that the green fairy is cloaked in a bit of mystery.
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