{"id":1800,"date":"2007-01-06T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2007-01-06T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T18:19:13","slug":"jim-rays-absinthe-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/jim-rays-absinthe-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ray&#8217;s Absinthe update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Ray, who is too shy to publish comments here, send us this update on absinthe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe New Yorker wrote a pretty definitive piece on the absinthe revival that does a good job of refuting the mythology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxygenee.com\/New-Yorker-Feb-2006.pdf\">(Feb 06 in PDF form here ).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few months earlier, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/13.11\/absinthe.html\">Wired gave the green fairie a similar treatment<\/a> (seems Conde Nast has an interest in absinthe&#8217;s future)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve succesfully procured some of the real deal from Ted Breaux&#8217;s absinthe distillery (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestabsinthe.com\/no.htm\">Jade Liquer&#8217;s Nouvelle Orleans<\/a> was my poison of choice) and was quite pleased with the result, even if a bottle does cost about US$150 shipped. Beat the pants off that acerbic crap I was lighting on fire in Prague a few years back.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.absinth-guide.de\/en\/how-to-drink-absinthe.html\">here&#8217;s a handy guide on how to properly imbibe, varied by region.<\/a> Much like kissing, I find the French method preferable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I prefer the Swiss method for absinthe, myself. All this mumbo jumbo with sugar is a bit tedious and dare I say too sweet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Ray, who is too shy to publish comments here, send us this update on absinthe: The New Yorker wrote a pretty definitive piece on the absinthe revival that does a good job of refuting the mythology (Feb 06 in PDF form here ). A few months earlier, Wired gave the green fairie a similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","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=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}