Feb. 27, 2005 — -- Cuba put on its annual cigar festival this week. And while President Bush's crackdown on travel to the Caribbean island kept the usual entertainment personalities and ...

I was being driven around Havana the other day when the taxi driver told me a joke. A Cuban descending into hell finds it divided by nationality. The torture of the day involves beatings with sticks ...

Aug. 15 -- They're considered one of the most impressive of imports, the most refined of relaxations, the most vaunted of vices. They're Cuban cigars, and they have long been counted among the best ...

Cuban cigar sales rose 7 percent to $402 million in 2007, the government-run tobacco company Habanos said Wednesday. Cuban cigars make up 80 percent of the world cigar market, not counting the United ...

The Obama administration announced Friday that it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travellers can bring back from the island. The administration is also ...

Tobacco: It's what's for dinner. A team of Croatian chefs whipped up a pungent meal Thursday, infusing the flavor of the tobacco leaf synonymous with Cuba into baked stone bass filets, bread and ...

Havana is the destination of the moment. In the past couple of months, Barack Obama, the Rolling Stones and even the Kardashians have made pilgrimages to the Cuban capital—along with Karl Lagerfeld ...

Before Miami was a spot on the map, Tampa’s Ybor City was rolling Cuban cigars and baking bread the way las abuelas did in Havana. The humble ethnic neighborhood has quietly turned out a number of ...

I am old enough to remember the last cigar boom, back in the Nineties. A cigar became an accessory, brandished by celebrities as diverse as Demi Moore, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jennifer Lopez.

Originally a tobacco farmer, Enrique Mons became perhaps Cuba’s greatest connoisseur and retailer of the island’s famous Habanos, or Havana cigars, and was for many years in charge of quality control ...