DALLAS — A few hundred feet from a Hong Kong tailor, several fast food joints and an Albertson’s in the Casa Linda neighborhood of East Dallas, Jose Hernandez is rolling cigars. Hernandez, 34, grew up ...
HUNTINGTON -- Huntington native Stoney Chaffin's life revolves around cigars. That would make him a workaholic, in his view. While some consider smoking a cigar an enjoyable but relatively ...
NASHUA - While only in business for a year, Gate City Cigars is already starting to receive recognition for its custom, hand-rolled Nicaraguan cigars. Mike Eracleo and his partner, Panos Panourgias, ...
At Nice Ash in Depew, owner Rob Roth thought it would be fun if they could make their own cigars. But he couldn't find anyone locally who could do the job. Roth's marketing man volunteered to learn ...
"The cigar is such a big part of Cuba … So we wanted to include it in this experience. It wasn't only about the food, we wanted people to come and have a full experience of a Cuban night. So that was ...
Tulsa’s Ultimo Cigars is the only hand-rolled cigar shop in Oklahoma, or anywhere else close by. It’s the dream of the shop owner and cigar roller Tomas Baquier Baldonado. Baquier Baldonado said he ...
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 ...
An integral part of Florida’s cultural heritage — hand-rolled cigars — is in danger of being snuffed out by an overzealous federal Food and Drug Administration. That’s distressing: The cigar-making ...
"When you see any product being made, you appreciate it all that much [more], especially in this time where machines just keep replacing hands," Jesus Martinez explains. Opened in 1974, Martinez Cigar ...
Photos courtesy of Derrick Richardson Photos courtesy of Derrick Richardson Event organizer Derrick Richardson (left) poses with musician Gigi Darr (right) during last year’s Hand Rolled Cigar ...
DOMENICO, GREECE — Greek households are cutting expenses and spending less time at restaurants and hair salons. But one local luxury is defying the downturn: hand-rolled cigars. Business is good at ...
HARARE (Reuters) – A newly established Zimbabwean company has started making cigars for export, aiming to take on established players while developing a culture of cigar smoking at home. Mosi-Oa-Tunya ...