The lore of the cigar that bespeaks a way of life. It is an interesting peculiarity of cigar smoking that, in a useful phrase: it escalates. A smoker accustomed to a cheaper cigar will one day pay for a better one, and thereafter, will never go back. Instead, he progresses, accident by accident, ever onward and Upmannward. As the cigars get better, the meanest individual acquires a respect for them, until the day comes when he goes out searching for spills…
— The standout of the four-size brand is the Toro, which has a gentle, rounded box press and a beautiful and evenly colored wrapper. The smokes are delicious from the first puff, with notes of nutmeg, white pepper and just enough strength without being overpowering. They are hard to put down. They are classics, 96-point smokes on our 100-point scale.
The Garcias have worked long and hard since coming to the United States, coming a long way in a very short time. Their cigars have made numerous appearances on Cigar Aficionado’s Top 25 list, but this is the first time they have won Cigar of the Year. —click image for more…
The Cuban cigar crisis. The events of October 1962 allowed the missiles to be cleared from Cuban soil, but the cigars were permitted to remain. It is quite possible to create a cigar say in Rochester, New York, but it is not considered a real cigar.
And there is only one way to light a real cigar, or even an honorably made cigar. To begin with, one must be provided with a long sliver of wood, or “spill,” which you can buy, or make for yourself by chopping down a tree, letting it dry for a year or two, and shaving off splinters from it. The process begins with the tip of the cigar between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand;they press gently upon it until the tip breaks open and an air passage takes shape. The cigar is then transferred to the left hand and the spill taken in the right hand.
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Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) smoking cigar in a classic early 1920s portrait.—
The spill is then plunged into the fireplace and set alight. The end of the cigar is rotated in the flame of the spill until it is hot, whereupon the cigar is taken into the mouth, its end still in the flame. The entire process can be carried out hastily in two minutes, or deliberately in five. No true cigar smoker will light a cigar in any other fashion.
ADDENDUM:
(see link at end)…John F. Kennedy smoked Upmann Petite Coronas.
Because of said predilection for said cigars, his colleagues nicknamed him “Stinky.”
—Salinger added: ‘I walked out of the office wondering if I would succeed. But since I was a solid Cuban cigar smoker, I knew a lot of stores. I worked on the problem into the evening.
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In some photos, the President is shown stepping off an airplane with one hand in his jacket pocket. Supposedly, he would carefully keep the lit cigar in his hand, and place that hand in a pocket, rather than snuff the cigar. He di
t want to be photographed with the cigar, but he did not want to snuff it either….…but I know that they were CUBAN Upmann Petite Coronas and that he supposedly sent an aid out in Washington DC to every cigar store he could find to buy boxes and boxes of them. In the end he received approximately 1200 of them from the aid, minutes (I’ll say agian, MINUTES) before he signed an embargo that has lasted for 45 years. Do what I say, not as I do??? Read More:http://www.puff.com/forums/vb/general-cigar-discussion/225635-jfk-cigar-related-lore-strictly-non-political.html
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