Long used as herbal medicine, the mixture was refined by the monks into the yellow and green versions of Chartreuse liqueur — each type purportedly containing 130 different botanicals.

For hundreds of years, Chartreuse has issued from this monastic plant, designed as a monastery, and built like one, with its iron-barred windows. In the great building constructed for the monks ...

A blanket of calm enshrouds The Copernicus Room at the New Castle Public Library as a group of six Tibetan monks quietly and diligently work to create a colorful sand art mandala. The monks ...

Did Orpheus wear chartreuse? When Aubree Oliverson, wearing a vivid yellow-green dress, performed Antonio Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E Minor (RV 278) in Kontrapunktus’s program “Il Nuovo Orfeo,” she ...

By James R. Hagerty Robert A.G. Monks, a lawyer and businessman from a prominent Massachusetts family who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate three times but found a calling in his 40s as an ...

While campaigning in Maine’s US Senate primary in 1972, Robert Monks asked about a smell overnight that was so noxious his eyes teared up. That, Mr. Monks was told, was a paper mill’s nightly ...

Monk fruit extract is said to be 150-250 times sweeter than sugar Over the past few years, there has been a visible shift towards healthier lifestyles. From whole grains to superfoods, various ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

Les Fêtes de la Chartreuse, autour du massif, de l’ordre et de la liqueur, sont de retour du 14 au 18 mai dans les communes distillatrices de la célèbre boisson, à Voiron, Saint-Laurent-du ...