Absinthe

Slotted spoons have a particular role in the traditional absinthe ritual. They are used to hold a sugar cube over a glass as one dissolves it into her drink with cold water.

Tom sat alone at the table, drinking absinthe.

Absinthe is the beverage of gods.

Tom drank absinthe, and Mary drank red wine.

One of his steadiest jobs was playing five nights a week at the Old Absinthe House on Bourbon Street.

He was absent from work because he drank too much absinthe last night.

Absinthe is made from wormwood.

Let us go out and drink to the very good health of Monsieur Tarzan in some of old Plancon’s unparalleled absinth; not forgetting that the Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.

Absinthe ads like to trade on artists like Van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec, as if the history of the green fairy began in the Pigalle neighborhood of 1870s Paris, but wormwood-infused drinks have been around for thousands of years.