MIAMI (Reuters) - Inside a Little Havana cigar rolling business in the heart of Cuban Miami, Maria Sierra's gnarled fingers perform the same dance they did for more than three decades for Havana's ...
In Cuban, Dominican and Honduran cigar factories decades ago, a man — El Lector, or “he who reads” — used to sit in a chair in front of the rows of cigar rollers bent over their desks. His job was to ...
The Cigar Roller. Pablo Medina. Grove Press. $21. 176 pp. If the title of Pablo Medina’s The Cigar Roller gives you feelings of dM-ijM-a vu, you aren’t alone. There’s an eerie resemblance between ...
HAVANA — Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba‘s stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 ...
NEW YORK, LOS ANGELES, CHICAGO and MIAMI, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- CFDominicana Cigars has officially launched Cigars to the Stars(TM) announcedtheir newest addition to their innovative Cigar ...
Dark, smoky lounges are the usual spot for tobacco appreciation. But "usual" is just another word for "boring." Forget usual. And say hello to The Cigar Bar at Area 31, a new open-air club where you ...
Ana Perez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on the small table in front of her. She began spraying the leaf with water and carving it up with a chaveta knife.
Tendrils of earthy smoke snake through a room on the edge of Little Havana, past old men in guayaberas slapping dominoes on a folding table and a long counter where a wrinkled 80-year-old brews ...
HAVANA — Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But one Cuban man is hoping that an 81.8-metre super-stogie he rolled is something more: a world record. Jose Castelar and his assistants started working on ...
Ford workers told their CEO ‘none of the young people want to work here.’ So Jim Farley took a page out of the founder’s playbook ...