HAVANA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- Rolling cigars completely by hand is an art that has been passed down from generation to generation in Cuba. Jose Alvarez, a Cuban cigar roller with over 25 years of ...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Inside a Little Havana cigar rolling business in the heart of Cuban Miami, Maria Sierra's gnarled fingers perform the same dance they did for more than three decades for Havana's ...

In Cuban, Dominican and Honduran cigar factories decades ago, a man — El Lector, or “he who reads” — used to sit in a chair in front of the rows of cigar rollers bent over their desks. His job was to ...

HAVANA — Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba‘s stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 ...

Ana Perez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on the small table in front of her. She began spraying the leaf with water and carving it up with a chaveta knife.

Dark, smoky lounges are the usual spot for tobacco appreciation. But "usual" is just another word for "boring." Forget usual. And say hello to The Cigar Bar at Area 31, a new open-air club where you ...

The Cigar Roller. Pablo Medina. Grove Press. $21. 176 pp. If the title of Pablo Medina’s The Cigar Roller gives you feelings of dM-ijM-a vu, you aren’t alone. There’s an eerie resemblance between ...