James Suckling's Blog Archives

April 2008

Breakfast of Champions

Posted: 12:16 PM ET, April 29, 2008

“Does it taste like 100 points?” asked David Savona, web tsar and senior editor of Cigar Aficionado.

“Good question,” I responded as I smoked in his office in New York. I wasn’t prepared to give my hand away. Read more

The Questionable Process of Purging Your Cigar

Posted: 09:54 AM ET, April 24, 2008

I am embarrassed to say that I didn’t know what the hell purging a cigar was until recently. I am only using “hell” because my editors would cut the proper four-letter word for this column.

I guess I never thought about purging my cigar. Read more

Living My Fantasy

Posted: 12:15 PM ET, April 15, 2008

I am going to let you in on a little secret. I have always fantasized about working in a cigar factory in Havana. There is something so seductive about the idea. Sure, it can be hard work, even monotonous labor. And the pay certainly is not much. But the thought of smelling, smoking and touching great Cuban leaf every day turns me on. Read more

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