“To overanalyze a cigar, or a mate, is to destroy the mystery. . .While we want to know what makes a cigar taste great, we don’t want our pleasure reduced to a chemical analysis of smoke and tobacco. In essence, we want the romance to continue with each new cigar encounter.” — Cigar Aficionado, 1993
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Most cigar lovers know that Tampa, Florida was once known as the “Cigar Capital of the World.”
“Stogies helped transform ‘Tampa town’ from a sleepy fishing village with 700 residents in 1885 to a thriving city of 108,000 two decades later. Back then, 159 factories employed some 13,000 workers as cigar rollers and tobacco strippers,” describes [...]
While we’re still reveling from the Yankees winning the World Series, The Associated Press poses this timely question: “Can baseball help bring US and Cuba together?”
Referring to it as “baseball diplomacy,” the AP reports that Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos hopes to hold exhibition games with the Cuban national team this spring, much like he [...]
Many of us breathlessly watched the World Series Wednesday night, until the outcome was final: Phillies 3, Yankees 7. If you’re a fan of the New York Yankees, you may have cheered the win with a celebratory cigar. (Phillies fans, on the other hand, may also have drowned their sorrows over a good smoke.) That’s [...]
Visiting New York City? Everyone needs to their fix of the Big Apple every now and then, so if you’re headed that way any time soon, and are looking for a good stogie bar, check out the following hot spots geared toward the cigar connoisseur:
Club Macanudo – Club Macanudo, located in the Upper East [...]
