Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alors! Somewhere in my recipe books, I tucked a recipe for the concoction- but getting the wormwood was well nigh impossible in the hinterlands thus, so I abandoned the project.... Just what are the effects of the drink? Dan ( who gts a buzz from milk and Nesquik) Post Emanuel Lowi wrote: >AFAIK, Spain is the only place in the world where real >absinthe -- the legendary madness-inducing >wormwood-laced liquor -- is still made. I once shared >a bottle with a friend from Madrid and it was indeed a >somewhat twisted version of the other anise-type >drinks. > >In other counties there are liquors with confusingly >similar names and labels, but without the >mind-clouding psychoactive ingredient. > >I'm almost as happy with raki, arak, or plain old >Ricard or Pernod, the brain-twisting days of reckless >youth now some years passed. > >Lemonade is my preferred mix, served with ice on hot >summer afternoons such as we shall not see again here >in Montreal for another ten months. > >Emanuel Lowi >Montreal > >NO ARCHIVE > >______________________________________________________________________ >Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > >