SUMMER READING: From the Pages of "CIGARS: A Culture"
Hollywood Legends, Celebrity Cigars & the Story of Yul Brynner's Lost Dunhill Don Cándidos
Aaron Sigmond
New Yorker. Author. Frequent cigar, wine & Cognac partaker. Latest book “CIGARS: a biography.”
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An earlier version of this article and excerpt first appeared in Wm Brown Magazine, Issue 19 (Autumn 2025). The version presented here has been revised, expanded, and edited. -SIG
THE CULT OF CUBAN CIGARS
Havana Dreams, Exported Myths and the Fine Art of Believing the Hype. How the world's most celebrated cigar became both an enduring icon and, increasingly, a triumph of perception over reality.
DAVIDOFF: The Road to America
More than a decade before the 1990s Cigar Boom, Davidoff wagered an improbable Swiss-Honduran experiment would transform the American cigar market. It did, laying the groundwork for the Boom itself.
SIG’S CIGAR ETIQUETTE
Most anyone can buy a fine cigar.Smoking one with a modicum of grace is another matter entirely.What follows are the unwritten rules of cigar etiquette.Except they aren't unwritten anymore, obviously.
HEMINGWAY COCKTAILS
"I drink to make other people more interesting." Whether Ernest Hemingway actually said it is beside the point. Few men have inspired more enduring cocktails—or provided better reasons to drink them.
IN PRAISE OF THE THREE MARTINI LUNCH
The three-martini lunch has spent decades being pronounced dead by people who rarely attended—let alone enjoyed—them in the first place. The trouble is that some of us neglected to stop attending them
On Second Thought
Long-Form Observations on Cigars, Culture, Luxury, Legacy Media & the Occasional Bad Decision