{"id":1792,"date":"2007-01-04T09:36:11","date_gmt":"2007-01-04T14:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2007-01-04T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-04T19:53:42","slug":"absinthe-gets-cleared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/absinthe-gets-cleared\/","title":{"rendered":"Absinthe gets cleared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sally points me to this NYTimes article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/01\/03\/dining\/03curi.html\">Trying to Clear Absinthe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reputation<\/a>, by Harold McGee.<\/p>\n<p>Basic points: High alcohol is the killer, not wormwood. But wormwood is psycho-active &#8212; so is sage with the same chemical. Czech absinthe generally sucks. If it&#8217;s not green, it&#8217;s not the real thing. If it doesn&#8217;t cloud well, it&#8217;s not the real thing. Champagne has its own secrets; unclean glasses work best for bubbles.<\/p>\n<p>Framed by a Hemmingway story. Male journalists all want to be like Papa. Why?<\/p>\n<p>An alert NYTimes forum member sends us to a Terra online video feature, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeonterra.com\/episode.php?id=56\">Forbidden Fruit: The Absinthe Drinker<\/a>, (about 7 1\/2 minutes) in which retired neurosurgeon David Cook (who is wearing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=sr_so_19\/104-1398130-7260758?ie=UTF8&#038;keywords=moc%20shoes&#038;rh=n%3A1036592%2Ck%3Amoc%20shoes%2Cp%5F4%3AMerrell&#038;page=1\">Merrell Mocs<\/a>) talks about absinthe and the myths and bad science associated with it. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zefrank.com\/theshow\/archives\/2007\/01\/010207.html\">And Ze Frank explains the real way that champagne works.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sally points me to this NYTimes article, Trying to Clear Absinthe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reputation, by Harold McGee. Basic points: High alcohol is the killer, not wormwood. But wormwood is psycho-active &#8212; so is sage with the same chemical. Czech absinthe generally sucks. If it&#8217;s not green, it&#8217;s not the real thing. If it doesn&#8217;t cloud well, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}