The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World's Most Dangerous Spirit
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Melville House Publishing, 2024
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Absinthe is a booming business, with global trade expected to reach £44.3 billion by 2026. First produced in 1792, the spirit, known as 'the green fairy,' was banned worldwide by 1914 before the bans were gradually overturned beginning in 2007. Thus, on the black market, bottles that were produced before the ban are worth solid gold. Enter The Absintheur, a deadly-charismatic European art student whose real name we can't yet divulge. He charmed some of the best minds (and palates) in the beverage world into thinking that he was selling them precious vintage pre-ban bottles, for years. How did he get away with it? The Absinthe Forger pieces together The Absintheur's subterfuge, motivation, and hidden life story with the help of the absinthe connoisseurs who eventually proved his fraud while Evan Rail reported on it for the New York Times. It relates the illicit history of absinthe, from its birth in Switzerland through its coming of age in France, and on to the spirit's modern revival starting. The Absinthe Forger is a compellingly bizarre crime drama that will make you never look at wormwood in the same way again.…
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- Título
- The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World's Most Dangerous Spirit
- Autor
- Evan Rail
- Editorial
- Melville House Publishing
- Año de publicación
- 2024
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Hardback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 1685891543
- ISBN 13
- 9781685891541
Absinthe, an elixir made of alcohol and herbs, is a booming business. From France to Japan, new absinthe distilleries are opening every year. Yet it is still an underground culture, associated with mystery, romance, and bohemian lifestyles, in keeping with its popularity among the writers, artists, and other ne’er-do-wells of nineteenth-century France. First produced in eighteenth century, the spirit, known as “the Green Fairy,” was banned worldwide by 1914 before the bans were gradually overturned beginning in 2005, the year Switzerland re-legalized absinthe.
Enter a bon vivant who inveigles his way into the private Facebook groups where the modern absinthe demimonde converges and charms some of the best minds (and palates) in the beverage world into thinking that he was selling them precious vintage pre-ban bottles. How did he get away with it?
The Absinthe Forger pieces together the forger's subterfuge and motivation. It shows how absinthe can transform a person — and even connect drinkers with a deeper, often hidden sense of self. It relates the romantic and illicit history of absinthe, from its birth in Switzerland through its coming of age in France, and on to the spirit’s modern revival starting in the 2000s.
Rail digs deep into the modern absinthe underground, whose members are still frantic to find the last remaining bottles of pre-ban absinthe, and he visits modern producers of the spirit, who have, in a generation, changed in status from daring-criminal bootleggers to sought-after celebrities. Ripe for a Netflix documentary, The Absinthe Forger is a compellingly bizarre crime drama that will make you never look at wormwood in the same way again.
This fascinating book includes over a dozen black & white photos with fin de siècle advertisements for absinthe, paintings by Degas and Manet, antique absinthe bottles and their ornate labels, along with botanical illustrations.
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Evan has appeared on several television programs, most notably showing Anthony Bourdain around the world of Czech food and drink on the television show No Reservations and drinking Czech beer during an interview with Phil Black on CNN. He has explained what it is like to bathe in beer on the Discovery Channel’s How Stuff Works and been quoted on where to drink in Prague in USA Today. Radio interviews with Evan have appeared on the BBC World Service, Deutsche Welle, Radio Prague, and Hungarian National Radio. He regularly records podcasts for Good Beer Hunting, where he works as international editor.
Evan’s poems and essays have appeared in The New Republic, The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, Agni, Metre, and Zyzzyva.
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