I'm looking for an article from the Financial Times, during last half
of 2003 or first half of 2004, describing a couple of older gentlemen,
living in Havana and rolling their own particular cigars in a very
limited production. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Jan 2006 14:22 PST
mrfrog-ga,
If the article is available online, we can post a link to it, assuming
we can find it.
However, there's a possibility that we find the article, but that it
is not available online. If that is the case, will a citation for the
article (article name and date) serve as an acceptable answer for you?
Let us know,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
mrfrog-ga
on
06 Jan 2006 15:39 PST
Yes, that would be fine. Thank you.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Jan 2006 15:54 PST
mrfrog-ga,
Thanks, but now I have another question.
I've looked through the Financial Times archives for the past few
years, for all articles having to do with cuban cigars. There doesn't
seem to be anything that really matches your description.
Are you sure it's a Financial Times article?
Is there anything more about the article that you can recall -- any
additional details would be a help.
Thanks,
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
mrfrog-ga
on
06 Jan 2006 17:37 PST
I believe it was printed in the Weekend edition of the FT. However, I
suppose it is possible that it was printed in the International Herald
Tribune (probably the weekend edition). If not that, then I'm
grasping at straws, but I suppose Cigar Aficionado is possible.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
06 Jan 2006 18:13 PST
Thanks for the feedback. But I'm still not finding anything that hits
the nail on the head. I'm going to unlock this question, so that
other researchers can have a crack at it.
Mean time, though, here are some of the articles I came across that
seemed to come closest...perhaps they'll ring a bell or two:
Opportunity knocked, and Demuth answered; Age-old firm is on a roll,
thanks to two veteran cigar makers from Cuba
Lancaster New Era/Intelligencer Journal/Sunday News, 1 March 2004
...Jesus and Xenia Hernandez don't say much while they work, but their
skilled hands and fingers never stop moving. Arriving from Havana,
Cuba, three years ago, the couple now hand- roll cigars for Demuth's
Tobacco Co.
Cigar festival draws rich smokers to communist Cuba.
Reuters News, 14:46, 24 February 2004
...Wealthy aficionados and retailers descended on the Mecca of cigar
lovers this week for five days of smoke-filled parties and tours of
tobacco plantations and factories that roll the world's most famous
cigars.
Why a whisky and a Cuban cigar is truly a match made in Havana.
The Scotsman, 16 January 2004
...IT WAS a combination that fuelled Winston Churchill in his darkest
wartime hours, and for Scotland and Cuba they are undoubtedly their
finest single exports. Now a group of whisky connoisseurs and cigar
manufacturers have met in Glasgow
Compay Segundo - Cigar-smoking songster who led the Cuban musical revolution.
The Guardian, 16 July 2003
...The cigar-smoked tones of Compay Segundo, who has died aged 95
following kidney problems, were central to the musical phenomenon
known as the Buena Vista Social Club. His unmistakeably gritty
baritone featured in a near-century-long career
Obscure cigarmaker was really the first
St. Petersburg Times, 13 February 2004
...He was one of two Spanish cigarmakers who decided in 1885 to bring
the cigar industry here. His factory was the first to produce cigars
in Tampa. But his name isn't Vicente Martinez Ybor
Cigar maker left imprint on city
St. Petersburg Times, 13 June 2003
...Though small in stature, Angel Cuesta stood large in his industry.
During Tampa's "Cigar City" heyday, he co-founded of one of its
biggest cigar makers. Cuesta furthered his reputation with charitable
works here and in his homeland
Cuba's entwined vices / Smoking cigars and drinking rum are an
integral part of living, dying
Houston Chronicle, 20 July 2003
...HAVANA, Cuba - Under a languid ceiling fan doing little to sweep
away smoke or the stagnant summer air, quality controller Alesis
Aguero draws determinedly on a panatela, mixing work with pleasure.
Let me know if you think of anything else.
pafalafa-ga
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