Hints and tips:
...I moved to Paris and met a writer called Julio Finn, an aficionado for cigars and the blues....
...rack of oak-smoked baby back ribs with raw slaw alongside new dishes like crispy duck with watermelon, cress and cashews and Pumpkin Pie Brûlée, while lighter fare such as steak tartare toasts and potato cigars...
...(Teneo also went hunting for a back issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine which featured Anthem’s chief executive smoking, which it hoped would “hurt his credibility as a healthcare CEO”.)...
...In 1966, Cyrus, a fedora-wearing, cigar-smoking, horseracing aficionado, embarked on the transformation of his stud farm into a global vaccine manufacturer....
...In another instance, Teneo led a search for a back issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine where Anthem chief executive Swedish appeared on the cover smoking a stogy....
...Teneo also went hunting for a back issue of Cigar Aficionado magazine whose cover featured Anthem CEO Joseph Swedish smoking....
...It is just a shame that with the smoking ban, the heady cigar smoke is all but a memory....
...So much so that he owned a chain of Cigar “Divans” around the world — saloons and stores for the cigar aficionado. Music was his greatest love....
...Pierce is also a shirt-and-tie aficionado; when we meet, he has a spare tie in his pocket for good measure. But if the role of Bunk has defined his career, it is far from the limit of his ambitions....
...Clarke is an aficionado of the finer things: cigars, jazz, Europe and long lunches....
...He compared the business to Cigar Aficionado or Wine Spectator magazines....
...“Havana before 1959 was like Monaco today, on steroids,” a resident European and watch aficionado tells me....
...Enter Max Rayne, later Lord Rayne, a dapper English property developer who wore tailored suits, smoked long slim cigars and had a passion for art through which he’d met a fellow art aficionado and Weil partner...
...“Even in China, which has the highest level of tea connoisseurs in the world, puerh is for a niche of aficionados and collectors,” says Hepburn....
...Cuban cigar aficionados in emerging markets helped Imperial increase its premium cigar volumes 11 per cent and revenues 10 per cent....
...Alison Cooper, chief executive of Imps and herself a cigar aficionado, rashly asked “to have a go” while visiting the factory....
...Kenneth Jacobs’ wood-panelled office on the 62nd floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York’s Art Deco landmark, was once the domain of Michel David-Weill, the imperious cigar aficionado who controlled Lazard...
...Global economic woes and the spread of smoking bans are taking a harsh toll on production of what many aficionados consider to be the world’s finest tobacco in the lush green-brown valleys of Cuba’s western-most...
...He launched “cigar tours” – he had been an aficionado of Havanas since his late 20s – with some success....
...According to Cigar Aficionado, the only pre-Obama cigarette smoking presidents were FDR and Eisenhower, but others smoked pipes or cigars – or toyed with unlit ones – in the Oval Office....
...This is one strictly for aficionados of poisoned chalices....
...The town of Montecristi, where hats from local villages are cleaned, finished and sold on, is to Panama hat lovers what Havana is to cigar aficionados....
...Observer’s man in the gallery struggled to spot a few of the usual blue suits among the cheering and swinging crowd, clearly dominated by young and female aficionados of the Latino heartthrob, as well as...
...With dark English walnut wall panels, oriental rugs and bookcases fronted with brass grilles, it was commissioned by a Wall Street cigar aficionado who wanted “an image of old fashioned machismo” and was...
...So, the anti-smoking lobby might have succeeded in restricting the possibilities for public cigar consumption, but it’s done nothing to lessen the desirability of the fine cigar among the world’s aficionados...
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