Absinthe Spoons and Julep Cups
Posted on July 9, 2009
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Matthew B. Rowley (Rowley’s Whiskey Forge) is an advertising executive, former museum curator, and past board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance.
The New Orleans antique store Lucullus beckons culinary collectors from around the world. The shop, at 610 Chartes Street, deals strictly in food-related antiques. And not your flea-market chic kitsch such as Aunt FiFi’s poodle apron: Proper antiques. Among the sterling marrow spoons, pudding molds, copper pots, and sideboards, cocktails aren’t forgotten.
Patrick Dunne, the owner, travels to France several times a year and returns to New Orleans with cocktail accoutrements such as stemware, absinthe glasses, and absinthe spoons. Prices for the latter start at $45. If you care to pony up for something a little more rarified, $1650 lets you adopt a pair of 19th century hand-blown absinthe glasses with matching brouilles, the little cups that sit inside the rim and drip iced water into the coupe for creating the renowned pearlescent louche.
Feel like juleps? You could walk away with a set of silver julep mugs of both French and American make. Maybe something smaller for your carry-on: a case by the back room holds enameled liquor bottle pendants.
Lucullus
610 Chartres St.
New Orleans, LA 70130
504. 528.9620
