Bidspirit auction | The Martini Companion A Connoisseur's

The Martini Companion A Connoisseur's Guide Signed Hardcover Book - Signed by Gary Gegan and Mardee Haiden Regan with a personal inscription to Michel Roux. Condition shows general handling wear, scuffing, and surface marks to the cover consistent with age. Interior pages appear intact. Includes dust jacket. This item is in good pre-owned, previously displayed condition with light wear and surface markings. Please reference all photos for full details. Book: 8 1/4” x 5 1/2”. Weight: 0.9 lbs. This item is originally from the collection of liquor icon Michel Roux. One of Mr. Roux’s signature spirits at Crillon was absinthe, the anise-flavored spirit known for its popularity among 19th-century artists like van Gogh and Toulouse-Lautrec. It was banned by the United States in 1912 amid concerns that wormwood, one of its ingredients, which contained thujone, caused hallucinations. In 2000, Mr. Roux introduced a legal absinthe, Absente, which used a sister botanical, Southern wormwood, with only trace amounts of thujone.