The Seattle Times - HOW DID one man from Everett manage to take double gold at the World Spirits Competition in 2011? It all started with his mother’s anise cookies.
Growing up in North Seattle, Marc Bernhard always loved the licorice-like flavor of his French-Canadian mother’s cookies. An appreciation for anise stayed with him, and as an adult he found himself searching for old bottles of absinthe, a potent liquor that was banned in this country for 95 years.
Growing up in North Seattle, Marc Bernhard always loved the licorice-like flavor of his French-Canadian mother’s cookies. An appreciation for anise stayed with him, and as an adult he found himself searching for old bottles of absinthe, a potent liquor that was banned in this country for 95 years.