Gastropod looks at food through the lens of science and history.
Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode every two weeks.
Co-hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley serve up a brand new episode every two weeks.
Left, a modern French woman enjoys a glass of absinthe during l'heure verte, the "green hour"; right, a poet gives in to the "green muse" in Albert Maignan's 1895 painting. (Left image, Personal Collection Nina S. Studer; right image, Albert Maignan/Musée de Picardie)
Nina Studer studies the history of drinking, colonialism, North Africa, and women's rights, and is the author of The Hour of Absinthe: the Cultural History of France's Most Notorious Drink. She is an associate researcher at the Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités at the University of Geneva.
Journalist Evan Rail is the author of The Absinthe Forger: A True Story of Deception, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Dangerous Spirit.