He tracked down and translated a Swiss absinthe recipe from 1871, and found a French absinthe still from the 1890s and had it shipped from overseas. To make the absinthe, he needed anise ...

Rail says this created an absinthe "boom" there, with the drink once again seen as fashionable. "[So] the Swiss re-legalised absinthe in 2005, and the French a couple of years later, along with ...