Chartreuse -- a color better known these days as "Brat Green" -- gets its name not from a herb or a flower as one might expect, but from an alcoholic beverage. More accurately, chartreuse gets its ...

It's one of the world's most mysterious drinks - and one of the most popular. However, a global shortage of French herbal liqueur Chartreuse has been giving bartenders everywhere a particularly acute ...

What many people don’t know about Chartreuse is that the Carthusian monks have made it since 1737. (Yes, you read that right.) Named after the monks’ Grande Chartreuse monastery, located in the ...

Behind the gray stone walls of the 900-year-old Grande Chartreuse monastery, high in the French Alps, two monks dry, crush, and sort 130 herbs and spices into burlap bags. The "plants room" where they ...

The first thing you notice is the color, a particular and lovely translucent green, the green of a deep tropical sea, of a primeval planet steaming in the sun, yet modern, too, a glowing neon, a ...

Chartreuse is a shade where green vivaciously nuzzles with yellow to create a mania in the art, fashion and toy industries. But by the late 1700s, the dye was suddenly recalled from the public sphere ...

In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Groning asked the Carthusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse Monastery in the French Alps if he could make a film about them. They said they’d get back to him and did – ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Holywater ... Carthusian monks at work. The monastic life isn't for Danielle Teutsch but her visit ...

While chartreuse is traditionally referred to in the context of the color – it’s a yellowish green that was prevalent between the late 1950s and early ’70s in American interior design ­– it’s also a ...