Ted Breaux

Theodore A. Breaux (born c. 1965 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a research chemist and absinthe expert. He founded Jade Liqueurs at a family distillery in Saumur, France in 2000, and assisted Viridian Spirits in gaining approval for the first legally imported absinthe to the United States in 2007.

Breaux grew up in New Orleans. He began his education at Harvard University, but transferred to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and then to the University of Louisiana in Lafayette before graduating in 1990. He has also studied at Tulane University in New Orleans. His career as a research chemist involved work in Alabama, so when his Gentilly Terrace home was destroyed in Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Breaux relocated to Hoover. He grows specimen plants and medicinal herbs in his back yard and continues to promote absinthe around the world.

References

• Ashcraft, Brian (November 1, 2005) "The Mystery of the Green Menace" WIRED magazine
• Maloney, Ann (November 8, 2007) "Ted Breaux brings absinthe to New Orleans for the first time in nearly 100 years." New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Sachs, Tony (September 10, 2009) "The Return Of The Green Fairy: Ted Breaux Brings (Real) Absinthe Back To America." Huffington Post