Elizabeth and Abigail explore the rich and complex history of absinthe's popularity, especially in 19th century France, and offer ways to use it in cocktails today.
Mentioned in the show:
Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle by Jad Adams
Absinthe Frappè lyrics
From the 1904 Broadway comic operetta 'It Happened In Nordland'
Music by Victor Herbert (founder of ASCAP)
Lyrics by Glen MacDonough
Verse
When Life seems grey and dark the dawn
And you are through,
There is, they say, on such a morn
One thing to do:
Rise up and ring, a bell-boy call
To you straight-way,
And bid him bring a cold and tall
Absinthe frappè!
Chorus
It will free you first from the burning thirst
That is born of a night of the bowl,
Like a sun 'twill rise through the inky skies
That so heavily hang o'er your soul.
At the first cool sip on your fevered lip
You determine to live through the day,
Life's again worthwhile as with a dawning smile
You imbibe your absinthe frappè.
Verse
The deed is done so waste no woe o'er yestereen.
Nor swear to shun a year or so the festive scene.
Remorse will pass, despair will fade with speed away
Before a glass of rightly made absinthe frappè!
Chorus
It will free you first from the burning thirst
That is born of a night of the bowl,
Like a sun 'twill rise through the inky skies
That so heavily hang o'er your soul.
At the first cool sip on your fevered lip
You determine to live through the day,
Life's again worthwhile as with a dawning smile
You imbibe your absinthe frappè.
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