Absinthe has been captured in artwork and literature from famous artists such as Pabo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, Arthur Rimbaud, Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemmingway, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Paul-Marie Verlaine, Aleister Crowley, and many others.
"...a little general background on the subject and its relation to New Orleans culinary and drinking history, plus a few wacky tales of very silly and uninformed people drinking poison and thinking (quite incorrectly) that it's absinthe"