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The green fairy: wormwood, anise, and fennel at fearsome strength.
Val-de-Travers, Switzerland, late 18th century
Popularly credited to Dr. Pierre Ordinaire in 1790s Couvet (the local Henriod sisters may have beaten him to it); Pernod carried the recipe over the French border and Belle Epoque Paris did the rest.
A high-proof spirit is redistilled with grande wormwood, green anise, and fennel, the holy trinity, then often colored green with a second maceration of herbs. Water and sugar do the serving.
Anise first, then bitter wormwood and alpine herbs. Iced water blooms it into a milky louche and softens the blow.
Did you know
The US banned it in 1912 and let it back in 2007; the modern rule simply caps thujone, the wormwood compound once blamed for madness.
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