I just have to tell you guys that, in my mind, this show is THE justification for public radio.  I am a huge fan of this show. 

           A few years ago, in the spring of 2010, I was getting into making absinthe, and had been struck with a more ancient variation of the simple anise and wormwood concoction that is modern absinthe.

“On the day I was born, my father was being tortured and eventually executed. My other brother died in my mother’s arms from starvation and sickness. We were supposed to be killed next…We survived a genocide only...