Features
JFK Revisited
Thirty-five years after his death, John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains a vivid presence in the minds of his countrymen. In a way, it is odd that this should be so. Nearly half the …
Alonzo & Berlin's Lobster House, Key West, Florida
Back in the 1950s, Key West was the stuff of a cigar aficionado's dreams. A night out meant dinner and a Cuban cigar on the waterfront, a short flight over the Florida Straits, …
Printer's Row, Chicago, Illinois
As a young Chicago chef, Michael Foley opened his first restaurant in 1981, striking out in a neighborhood where few thought he could survive. Printer's Row--a rugged South Loop …
Hotel Vernet, Paris, France
A boutique hotel, or hôtel de charme as the French say, the Hôtel Vernet looks like a fine private town house. Less than a block from the Place de l'Etoile and Arc de Triomphe as …
The Pierre, New York City
When relaxing in the Rotunda, watching Neptune, Venus and other mythological figures cavort in the puffy, rococo clouds overhead, guests at this fabled Beaux Arts landmark are …
Maestro of the Myriad
Drew Nieporent is only five minutes late for lunch, a virtual early bird by New York standards. No sooner does he sit down at a sunny window seat of his Tribeca Grill then the …
From Left to Write
I really think cigar smoking does make you smarter. Or maybe it just makes you sit still long enough to be smart. Or maybe it creates such a big stink that nobody comes around to …
Caviar Cachet
Caviar was not always the stuff of dreams. Once it was a reality of everyday life. In nineteenth-century Russia, caviar was so abundant that "people used to clarify their soups …
Fashion: American Dreams
The contemporary wardrobe of the American male contains a number of classic items that weren't all necessarily invented by us but are clothing styles whose genre we perfected, so …
Grand Old Golf
The drive north from The Homestead resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, to The Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, can take less than an hour. Yet this stretch of …
Land Ho! Antique Maps
The gentleman's pedigree was impeccable--but the antique maps stuffed under his sweater were stolen. Fitzhugh Lee Opie, a great-great-grandnephew of Gen. Robert E. Lee, …
Porsche Panache
As I sit in a car speeding at 150 mph for the first time in my life, I flash back several decades to early childhood. Riding next to my father on a highway, I would press the …
Really The Blues
The warmth, the coziness, the golden glow of the red and amber stage lights suffusing every corner of the room of Lee's Unleaded Blues Cocktail Lounge that greets you as you step …
Single-Malt Scotches
These generous whiskies, with their individual flavours, do recall the world of hills and glens, of raging elements, of shelter, of divine ease. The perfect moment for their …
The World Series of Poker
Dreams do come true. But so do nightmares. For many years I have written about the World Series of Poker, the biggest poker tournament on earth, where, in the World …
Underhand About Secondhand
You know the look. Every cigar smoker does. It starts with a glance, moves to a grimace and settles into a scowl. People get up and move away. Then the comments start. "Could you …
Cigars
Family Matters—The Perez Tobacco Growers
For the Perez family of Miami's A.S.P. Enterprises Inc., tobacco growing is more than just a career—it's in the genes.
Carlos Fuente
Carlos Fuente Jr. has become one of the most recognizable people in the cigar business. While at the helm of Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia., he has seen the company rise to one of …
Ratings from this Issue
Up Front
The Truth Comes Out
We can't help but feel some satisfaction about a judge's ruling this summer regarding the 1993 Environmental Protection Agency report on secondhand smoke. Judge William Osteen of …
Out of the Humidor
Dear Marvin, Mary is blonde, beautiful, and the most vivacious woman I've ever known. She's also my fiancée. Like me, she's not a cigarette smoker, so I didn't know how …