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Amy
Brown - Book Faery
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Limited Collector's Edition Hardcover: NOW SOLD OUT!
This limited edition book with Black Cloth Cover and Green Foil Embossed
Letters contained an author signed bookplate and was limited to 300 copies.
A few Limited Collector's Edition Hardcover books may be left for sale
through Betina!
You can ORDER the Revised Edition NOW through Amazon ($17.16!) and Barnes
and Noble ($17.05!). Regular Price is $19.95.
All 5000 regular edition books sold out since first published October 2003. The second printing of 3000 books published in June 2005 is now sold out! The Revised Edition of 3500 books was published August 2008 and is presently available at all major bookstores.
The Chicago Tribune reviewed the First Edition book and stated that it was "gorgeous." Bon Apetit Magazine reviewed and featured my book on page 56 in the April 2004 issue! Books are now available for sale in England and soon will be sold in Australia. We are presently seeking European publishers to translate the book into French, Spanish, Russian, and German.
Take an intimate look into the historic and contemporary worlds of absinthe.
International in scope, Absinthe: Sip of Seduction is a visually rich
journey into a mysterious world. Punctuated with color reproductions of
classic and current lithographs, posters, postcards, and cartoons; antiques,
glassware, bottles, and other tools, this new and thorough study explains
and illustrates the history, culture, and mystique of the drink known as the
Green Fairy.
Invented in the late 1700s by a French expatriate doctor living in
Switzerland, absinthe was created as a digestive tonic, using the newly
discovered science of spirituous distillation. In the early years, absinthe
was just another regionally crafted liquor from the sleepy countryside near
the Franco-Swiss border. But with the onset of the Industrial Age in the
early 1800s, this was all about to change. With its preparation rituals and
unique tools, absinthe drinking developed into a cultural all its own.
The focus is unique; in addition to the customary glimpses of history, the
authors provide insights into the controversy and effects of "the Green
Fairy" in the stories of famous connoisseurs include Vincent Van Gogh, Oscar
Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, and Pablo Picasso. Consumption and enjoyment of
absinthe is not just relegated to history; contemporary drinkers include
Johnny Depp and Marilyn Manson, and Absinthe: Sip of Seduction explores
contemporary culture and ritual. Explained are sipping instructions,
variations including French, Czech, and German methods, cocktail and drink
recipes, and even suggestions for culinary accompaniments.
Thank you.
Betty J. Wittels
356 E. Kelso St.
Tucson, Arizona 85705
USA
E-mail: elixirs@flash.net or wittelsb@flash.net
Ph: 520-622-5105
Fax: 520-388-9250
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Betina Wittels' Biography
Betina Wittels is a master's degree family psychotherapist and has had a
private practice in the American Southwest for more than two decades. Betina
was Co-founder of a Shelter for Runaway Children in 1976 in which she
created the entire program that exists to this day. Betina is, also, an
antique dealer with a world renown specialty in Fin de Siecle French
glassware and absinthe spoons....
As a flower child of the 60's she acquired her merchant skills by selling
carnations on the street corners by night and working her way through
college by day. Sojourning on ships since age 3, the gypsy wanderlust is in
Betina's veins. She, also, traveled to the Cayman Islands for two years as a
consulting psychotherapist. Through these foreign experiences she learned
about different cultures and how to bend the rules without breaking the
law..Taught by her physician father, she learned how to dump medicine out of
his little black medicine bag and, instead, place red Chinese jade inside
the bottles to transport the precious cargo home. As a chronic over-packer,
she has now graduated to hard-side suitcases and bubble wrap.
Betina is willing to turn over every boulder in any foreign land to find an
antique spoon or a vintage bottle of absinthe. Since adventure is in her
nature she will search through all towns and provinces to speak to anyone.
Disregarding all language barriers she will find a way to communicate.
Betina is fluent in Spanish and struggling with French. Unafraid she will go
anywhere ..even to Barrio Chino in Barcelona.
Personal family ancestors inspiring her include King Ludwig of Wittelsbach
who built the faery tale castles in Austria and Fritz Wittels, a Viennese
psychiatrist who worked alongside Sigmund Freud.
Mystical and realistic, her philosophy is to embrace life. She believes in
ancestry, destiny, free will, faeries and God. And, of course, she has a
black cat identical to the one sipping in the Absinthe Bourgeois Poster.
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