Tag: Culture

• Leaves from a 2014 harvest

  

  Sila Blume

  January 24, 2016

  Cigars, Culture, Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, Tobacco

  Cigars, Crop, Culture, Dominican Republic, Factory, Harvest, Leaves, Martinez Handmade Cigars, raw material, Tobacco

• Finding oneself in a Cathedral is relative

  Sila Blume

  August 7, 2015

  Cigar Culture, Cigars, lounge, Nat Sherman – New York, Smokers, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge, Tobacconist

  Cathedral, Culture, Lounge, Nat Sherman, New York, stained window, Tobacco

• A Flatiron is not a Torpedo, but a Flatiron / Notes on the Martinez Flatiron #2 Cigar

  In the neighbourhood of the Flatiron Building, a foreign culture has been absorbing the New York district since 1974. Bedded six streets and two avenues away from the iconic architecture, the Martinez tobacco factory is a representation of the Dominican cigar hand rolling tradition. Six days a week the torcedores begin the day by starting…

  Sila Blume

  July 31, 2015

  Cigar Reviews, Cigar Rollers, Cigars, Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, New York, Smokers, Tobacco

  #2, Antonio Genaro Martinez, Building, Cigars, Culture, District, Factory, Flatiron, Hand, Jesus Martinez, Martinez, Natural, Rolled, Rollers, Tobacco, Torcedores

• To re-live the Gilded Age a century later / Notes on a Cigar from La Gloria Cubana

  In our modern world we tend to focus on the future. Feeling we have arrived today’s moment, which could be seen as a physical reality, we look ahead, inventing, thinking, constructing and planning. Thus we invest a great amount of energy in letting the future be manifested today. Those who do that are praised as…

  Sila Blume

  June 17, 2015

  Cigars, Cuba, Tobacco, Tobacconist

  Art Deco, Cigars, Cuba, Culture, Gilded Age, History, La Gloria Cubana, Roaring Twenties, Tobacco

• Into the Cigar World and its Selection of Men

  There might be some truth to the quality of company we are as a bunch in smoke lounges. It might be accurate to describe ourselves as a league consisting in part of gentle men, gentle souls and inquisitive, vibrant minds. Yes, and this is true in the perception of this young man. It is the…

  Sila Blume

  June 16, 2015

  Cigars, Smoke and Minds, Smokers, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge, Tobacconist

  Cigar, Conversation, Culture, Gentlemen, League of Gentlemen, smoker, Social, Tobacco, Young

• Carving Ice Cubes

  Sila Blume

  May 27, 2015

  Le Connoisseur – Roppongi – Tokyo, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge

  Bar, carving, Culture, Ice Cubes, Japan, Le Connoisseur, Roppongi, Tokyo

• Myth and Reality to a Smoke Lounge

  Believing seems to be a human necessity used in supporting our dealings with things we do not understand, as we yearn for security and completeness. This need is of individually existential nature, but equally socially and culturally supportive. Once we pair it with our ever evolving creative impulse and our love for poetic expression, it…

  Sila Blume

  May 18, 2015

  Cigars, NYC Fine Cigars, Smokers, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge

  Culture, History, New York, NYC Fine Cigars, Philip Bloom, Tobacco

• Aesthetic line compositions and Beauty – On contemplating femininity

  Contemplating a feminine female being moves special forces in a man’s will. This flow of energy will move him on grounds of carnal desires, as well as through an innate drive to preserve his species.  If she radiates beauty in his eyes, his composure might not be able to contain his movements. Beauty is a power. It…

  Sila Blume

  May 11, 2015

  Cigars, Females, Ladies and Cigars, Smokers, Tobacco

  Beauty, Cigars, Communication, Culture, Females, Gender, Ladies, Lounge, Nat Sherman, Smokers, Socializing, Women

• Cigar Bed on a Matson Style Ashtray (Details)

  Sila Blume

  March 3, 2015

  Ashtrays, Cigars, Tobacco, Vintage

  ashtray, Cigars, Culture, Design, Hollywood Regency, Matson Style, Tobacco, Vintage

• Holy Ashes deserve Holy Trays

  Sila Blume

  March 1, 2015

  Accessories, Ashtrays, Cigars, Collectibles, Smoke and Minds, Tobacco

  Ashtrays, China, collectibles, Culture, Fine Smoking, Porcelain, Tobacco

• About 17 years ago I ate a wonderful goat

  … better said, I ate some few parts of a goat. Those parts were so fine in taste and texture that I am writing about them now, and it is not the first time I feel the need to tell their story of their influence on me. No meal in fifty-five years is so clear…

  Sila Blume

  November 15, 2014

  Cigars, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge

  Aristippos, Bar, Cigar, Cuaba, Cuba, Culture, Diademas, Epicurean, Japan, Lounge, Meguro, Sensei, Tobacco, Tokyo

• Details in the Macanudo Club

     

  Sila Blume

  April 21, 2014

  Cigars, Macanudo Club, Pipes, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge

  Architecture, Cigars, Culture, Macanudo Club, Pipes, smoking, Tobacco

• Macanudo Club, New York City

  In a place carried by many years in the tradition of catering to the fine-smoker, a tradition with high demands on the quality with which they serve and the pleasure offered to their guests, it comes to me as no surprise that the tray in which my cigar was brought to me, could have posed…

  Sila Blume

  April 21, 2014

  Cigars, Macanudo Club, Tobacco, Tobacco Lounge

  Cigars, Culture, Lounge, Macanudo Club, Pipes, Tray Accessories

• The Jewish Mind will discuss even at the Cigar Lounge

  

  … and they will continue, until a Dog wishes to join the conversation

  Sila Blume

  July 28, 2013

  Cigar Inn – New York, NY, Cigars, New York, NY, Tobacco

  Cigar Inn – New York, NY, Cigar Smokers, Culture, discussion, Jewish, Jews, Manhattan, New York, Tobacco