Absinthe
Subtitle: History in a Bottle
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: February 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780811816502
Subjects: Customs; Spirits & cocktails; Photo Essays; Social Science; Cooking / Wine; Beverages - Wine & Spirits; History; Cooking / History; Sociology - General
First sentence: On the yellow dawn of August 28, 1905, while his wife and children slept, Jean Lanfray rose and dressed in the second-floor bedroom of his family's dilapidated farmhouse in Commugny, a small village within the French-speaking canton of Vaud, Switzerland.