The announcement of more normal diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba is welcome news for many reasons. Americans will now have somewhat fewer restrictions on travel, business, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many American cigar smokers dream of smoking a Cuban, legally. We're talking about Cuban cigars, which have been banned in the U.S. since the 1962 trade embargo against the Castro government. But as ...

Caribbean editor Gay Nagle Myers is in Cuba on a six-day Friendly Planet travel agent fam trip, exploring Havana and its environs. HAVANA -- The best piece of advice I heard today came from Elias ...

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 ...

HAVANA - 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 ...

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.

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 ...