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The Proper Care and Feeding of Cigars
Picture this: You're going to have dinner at the home of a famous wine collector - somebody famous for the quality and discrimination of his or her palate, perhaps a wealthy person who can afford to buy those vintages the rest of us can only dream of savoring
You arrive
Mixing it Up: Food and Drinks That Go Well With Cigars
Premium cigars are many peoples' idea of the ultimate inexpensive luxury item So with more and more Americans putting more thought into their meals - as the proliferation of magazines such as Food and Wine, Cook's Illustrated and Food, as well as the new popularity of cooking shows and books attests - it's natural enough to wonder how these two pleasures might combine
Celebrate With Cigars
It?s no surprise that we tend to give cigars as gift items at weddings, bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and new births, or that cigars remain popular gift item ideas for new dads, new moms, new brides and grooms, and newly engaged couples After all, cigars have been associated with celebration and ceremony, with marking the moment, for as long as they?ve existed
Cigars 2.0: Facebook for the Cigar Lover
In a few short years, http://Facebookcom has become a popular social-networking web site
What Drinks Go Best With Cigars
The signs are everywhere: more and more Americans are interested again in the idea of using their homes to entertain friends and associates
An Amazon search for books on "entertaining" calls up over 468,000 hits, while?if you search "party ideas" on Google?you get nineteen million
Novelists and Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a day, typing, looking for any small pleasure to momentarily enliven their bored senses
What to Serve With Cigars
The signs are everywhere: America is, increasingly, a taste-conscious country After decades of fast food, people are talking about the ?slow-food? movement
Cigars From Everywhere: A Look at the Best Cigars From Two Nations
The best cigars in the world, if you're just looking at rankings, tend to come from only a few countries, most of them Latin American: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and those banned-in-America Cuban cigars that everyone talks about However, excellent tobacco is grown all over the world?some regions that you might not immediately think of include Connecticut, the American South, and the Middle East, home of a delicious sweet-smelling tobacco that makes those country's open-air markets such a joy for those who love to smoke
The Wide World of Cigars
To look at the rankings, the world's best cigars seem to come from only a few countries: Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and (unfortunately for Americans, who can't buy the country's products) Cuba But excellence actually comes from all over the world?and in fact, some of the tobacco that makes many of the most highly-ranked cigars comes from places you might not immediately think of: Mexico, Brazil, the Middle East, Connecticut, and the American South
Father's Day Cigars: A Great Gift Idea
We hand them out during bachelor parties We give them to new fathers
Famous Modern Male Icons Who Enjoy Cigars
After years of decline, cigar smoking abruptly returned to popularity in America in the 1990s, with cigar bars and shops springing up even in smaller towns and cities Some of America's great male icons of sports and entertainment were quick to pick up the habit, while others had been closet cigar smokers for years
Cigars and Music: A Natural Combination
Perhaps it's because there's a close cultural connection between great music and smoky bars Anyone who knows anything about jazz knows that its truly legendary improvisers?Coltrane, Bird, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie?cut their teeth playing in bars so smoky that it's a good thing everybody was too busy improvising to need sheet music
Cigars in Brazil: An Uncertain Future?
Those who know their cigars well also, by that same token, know Brazil?albeit as a source of great tobacco rather than as a top cigar-producing nation Brazilian tobacco, mainly produced in the country's temperate northeastern and southern regions, turns up in such world-class cigars as Carlos Torano's Toro, but the country's cigar producers themselves haven't always gotten the same respect
Mike's Cigars Distributors Introduces an Innovative Twist on Branding Cigars
Mike's Cigars, a major cigar distributor in Miami, Florida, is now offering personalized cigar bands that are professionally die-cut and digitally custom printed.
Which Types of Cigars Go with Which Liquor?
The cigar has long been seen as a luxury of the rich and famous. Pictures of well-heeled men drawing on different types of cigars and nursing a glass of aged brandy have been well documented and immortalized in movies and TV. If you are getting curious about cigars and want to loosen up with a stogie and an adult beverage after a hard day's work, here are a few hints to get you going.
Iconic Females Who Enjoyed Cigars
Who comes to mind when you hear the word "cigar" smoker If you're like too many people - most of them nonsmokers - you imagine a well-dressed male, perhaps wearing a sweater vest, someone - no matter what age - who exudes a certain personal gravity
Cigars: Growing Tobacco Part 2
How Many Tobacco Plants per Acre?Each type of tobacco has an ideal denseness in the field. To ensure a well balanced development of the plant and produce the product required by industry, the grower has to respect spacing between plants when transplanting.
Cigars: The Cigar Wrapper
With Patrice Hirschfeld:Does A Dark Wrapper Mean A Strong Cigar?Maybe you have heard that the darker the wrapper, the stronger the cigar. This is both true and not true.
Canada's Most Valuable Cuban Cigar Humidor
Introducing the Cohiba 35th Anniversary Humidor number 422 out of the 500 that were produced in 2002 by Habanos S.A.
The Proper Care and Feeding of Cigars
Picture this: You're going to have dinner at the home of a famous wine collector - somebody famous for the quality and discrimination of his or her palate, perhaps a wealthy person who can afford to buy those vintages the rest of us can only dream of savoring
You arrive
Cigars: Some Producing Countries
The Dominican RepublicThe Dominican Republic is the world's largest handmade cigar manufacturer. Although its cigar making tradition is very old, production was boosted in the 1960's with the Cuban embargo.
An Introduction to Cigars Today
Despite their similarities to cigarettes, cigars have long possessed a much more sophisticated persona. Though they have often been portrayed as accessories of the rich and powerful in years past, cigars have seen a much broader degree of mainstream popularity recently.
Celebrate With Cigars
It?s no surprise that we tend to give cigars as gift items at weddings, bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, and new births, or that cigars remain popular gift item ideas for new dads, new moms, new brides and grooms, and newly engaged couples After all, cigars have been associated with celebration and ceremony, with marking the moment, for as long as they?ve existed
Novelists and Cigars: A Long-Running Romance
Like coffee, alcohol and other, somewhat more illicit pleasures, cigars have a longtime fascination for certain kinds of creative folks Perhaps this is especially true of novelists, whose work compels them to sit staring at a page for hours a day, typing, looking for any small pleasure to momentarily enliven their bored senses
Cigars: Processing Tobacco
Why Process Tobacco?After being harvested and cured, tobacco is not fully stabilized and can not be kept long. It must next be fermented.
Sport Cars, Designer Suits, Expensive Cigars and Watches
For many owning a sports car, designer suits and expensive watches is a dream only possible in the movies. Even as children we are almost programmed to turn and look at the beautiful sleek sports car as it cruises through the town. Sports cars are the zenith of motoring and something which people dedicate their lives to. These are a symbol of success and money which attracts many women and make men jealous.
Famous Modern Male Icons Who Enjoy Cigars
After years of decline, cigar smoking abruptly returned to popularity in America in the 1990s, with cigar bars and shops springing up even in smaller towns and cities Some of America's great male icons of sports and entertainment were quick to pick up the habit, while others had been closet cigar smokers for years
Cigars: Curing Tobacco
Curing Tobacco: a NecessityLike many plants, green tobacco is 90 percent water. After being harvested, and before going to the barn, the tobacco has faded a little and the water content is about 80%.
A Cigar Humidor -Every Aficionado Needs One
Owning a humidor is a true sign of a cigar aficionado. There is a common misconception that humidors are large and often expensive. Yes, you can buy large, even walk-in humidors that will cost you a years salary, but that it unnecessary unless you have enough cigars to fill a humidor that large!
Cuban Cigars
Global demand for Cuban cigars continues to grow hand in hand with the thriving counterfeit cigar market. Cigar Aficionado magazine estimates that 80 to 90 percent of Cuban Cigars sold in the United States are counterfeit cigars. Many vendors may be unaware they may infact be selling counterfeit Cuban cigars.