Wired has a neat article about an absinthe distiller who has discovered the art of making an absinthe that Toulouse-Lautrec wouldn’t be ashamed to drink – and who proves that it’s not as dangerous as some naysayers think. Ever since absinthe became legal in the EU in the late 80’s, it’s been available there mostly in a lesser, bottom-shelf form. I thought I was cool when I had some in Edinburgh in 2001, but now I realize I quaffed a phony concoction.