A Colour of Many Connotations: Red
How westerners fear the red flag, forgetting that it runs blatant through our own banners...
Elixir of Life: Chartreuse
The monks may never have intended to drink the incredibly alcoholic tincture, but plenty of other Europeans did...
War & Alchemy: The Story of Prussian Blue
The blue shade was synthesized accidentally in German scientist Johann Dippel’s laboratory, after he failed to alchemize gold...