HERB - Re: Absinth

[LaSarney@aol.com]

This intereested thread brings up a major question for me. In Morocco, the
winter version of mint tea is made with wormwood instead of mint; it has a
slightly bitter, "hot" taste and is considered to be "warming"-a specific
against the winter cold. IIRC, I once read somewhere that it wasn't the
wormwood in absinthe which made it dangerous, but the fact that it was such
poorly distilled alcohol--something akin to bathtub gin.

Any comments?
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