title: The Little Green Book of Absinthe: An Essential Companion with Lore, Trivia, and Classic and Contemporary Cocktails
author:  Paul Owens 
description: Paul Owens discovered absinthe while traveling through Europe in the mid-1990s and later joined San Francisco&rsquo;s absinthe underground, led by magician and infamous bootlegger Paul Nathan. Two of his favorite absinthe cocktails, the Mexican Wrestler and the Deep End, are on the menu at his restaurant, Tortilla Heights.<br>Paul Nathan has been drinking absinthe since the 1980s and throwing absinthe parties in the United States since the millennium. As a professional magician, he&rsquo;s had the chance to travel across Europe exploring absinthe culture for months at a time. In December 2006 Paul was busted for selling absinthe in the only absinthe bust in modern times. He is also the founder and owner of Absintheology.com and Absintheparty.com, which throws absinthe parties and events worldwide. He lives in San Francisco.
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  _Acknowledgments_
  
  
  
  
  
  I first want to thank my editor at Ballantine, Dan Smetanka, for all his
  insight and patience, and Jennifer Hengen and Neeti Madan at Sterling Lord
  Literistic. Grovels to Jeff “Left Jones” Harris for his devoted research into
  the nature of absinthe. Special gratitude to everyone who contributed recipes
  to the book—their names are mentioned in the relevant sections—and those
  scholars who have become specialists in a variety of fields, in particular
  Stanley Kaplan, Frederic Simoons, the writers at _Petit Propos Culinaire_ ,
  Piero Camporesi, and many others, without whose work researching a book like
  this would have been pure hell. I’m sure at times I’ve misunderstood their
  thoughts, and I apologize in advance. All mistakes are mine. A variety of
  people were helpful in many ways, including David Lindsey, Zarela Martinez,
  Jerry Feldman, Jean-Louis Palladin, Michael Ginor, Robert Darnton, Zata
  Vickers, David Kileast, George Faison, Christene Gabriele, John Surinde,