With its halo of mystery, absinthe never ceases to provoke heated debates about its vices and virtues. There is a seemingly never-ending flow of books about its history and about its distillers. A very full past enlivened with picturesque characters helps maintain this myth around the elixir that is so dear to our hearts and to our taste buds.

So why a new book?
 
Couvet is the birthplace of absinthe and for more than one hundred years while absinthe was distilled in Couvet, daily life there was dominated by the crowd of artisans and workers involved in its production. The pioneers of this industry were the most celebrated people in this small village of barely one thousand persons in 1750, the time when absinthe as we know it today was invented.

Without tarnishing the legend around the birth of absinthe, it seemed necessary to us to find out more about Mother Henriod, the Grandpierre sisters, aunt Suzon Guyenet, the ladies who possessed absinthe’s recipe. Who were Major Dubied and all the other distillers, and where were their distilleries that today are disappeared and mostly forgotten .To find out more, including how to buy it....only in French

Article from the Express of 02/04/09: http://duvallon.over-blog.com/article-29773012.html