Harold McGee recreates Hemingway's absinthe…

Harold McGee recreates Hemingway's absinthe cocktail, without the absinthe. “Pour one jigger absinthe into a Champagne glass. Add iced Champagne until it attains the proper opalescent milkiness. Drink three to five of these slowly.” McGee reports that recent studies disprove the belief that absinthe causes hallucinations and criminal behavior.