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Anybody got an absinthe spoon?

by Kate Dolan | Apr 15, 2013 | Articles, Food, Latest Posts, Living History

On a cold night a hundred years ago, government inspectors raided the saloons of a small town west of Baltimore. This was six years before the passage of Prohibition, so the inspectors weren’t looking to confiscate all the booze, just one particular substance that...

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