Rollers – Smoke and Minds

Preparing Tobacco Leaves

Sila Blume

December 6, 2015

Cigar Factory, Cigar Rollers, Cigars, Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, Tobacco

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Martinez Handmade Cigars – Dominicans in New York City

We are not to ask what our country can do for us, but to think on what we can do for our country. This mindset has been planted in the citizens of the United States of America through the famous words of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However, for immigrants that continue to embark into an unknown…

Sila Blume

October 30, 2015

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Cigars-to-be

Sila Blume

August 8, 2015

Cigar Factory, Cigars, Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, Tobacco

Cigars, Factory, Martinez Hand Rolled Cigars, Rollers, 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

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