Holy Smoke: Heavenly Habanos (cigar story)
The unique contemplative pleasure of smoking a Havana cigar should never be taken lightly. Whilst the lucky few indulge in this luxury on an enviably regular basis, they never allow familiarity to breed contempt. However many cigars one smokes, one never tires..
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EL MOJITO PERFECTO
Text by Jack Litrell
The Mojito, Cuba’s signature cocktail, storied and legendary. Havana nights, Hemingway, El Ron de Cuba. But what’s a mojito anyway? Examples abound. Is it the rum drink with the dollop of mint served in trendy bars wordwide - even in the USA? The quality varies; it’s even possible to have a terrible mojito in Havana. How do we find the real mojito, el mojito perfecto?
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CIGAR SMOKING IN HAVANA A VISITORS GUIDE
Havana deserves its reputation as a mecca for cigar smokers. Amir Sarony talks you through the best cigars out there now and where to savour them.
Text by Amir Saarony - Photographs by Sven Creutzmann
First off, Fidel Castro no longer smokes cigars—he gave them up in 1986 in an effort to promote non-smoking in a country with one of the highest rates of lighting-up in the world. Havana nonetheless remains a mecca for cigar smokers on an island where cigars play an intricate role in the country’s history, culture and everyday life.
THE 2007 HABANO CIGAR FESTIVAL
with Terence Conran
By Stephen Gibbs
Maybe someone was having a quiet joke. Perhaps it was a coincidence. But for one reason or another, Havana’s Karl Marx theatre was the setting for the inaugural night of celebrations in honor of that great capitalist prop, the hand-rolled cigar.
