E. Roberts The Kaywoodie Christmas Dinner and Northeast Regional Slow Smoke Championship was the highlight of my holidays this year. There aren’t enough pipe parties these days, and this combination […]
Read moreE. Roberts Well the days keep getting shorter, and the nights keep getting colder…and we’re getting older, too. Winter is well and truly here, and so is some new tobacco, […]
Read moreE Roberts It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas … thanks to Peterson’s Holiday Season 2014 edition. Coming so soon after the recent review of their Summertime and Special […]
Read moreE. Roberts How do you define luxury? Do visions of Rolls Royce’s Spirit of Ecstasy come to mind, weekend trips in a private jet, a bungalow retreat in Bali perhaps? […]
Read moreE. Roberts It’s been a long day, the longest one in a string of long weeks. When there’s work to be done and some passion behind it, you don’t give […]
Read moreE. Roberts In this scenario, I’m the May beauty (indulge me here), enamored in my youthful extravagance of the much older September paramour, the estimable Peterson of Dublin. Peterson’s seasonal […]
Read moreE. Roberts "Capstan." To say the name amongst pipe smokers invokes one of those hallowed blends that form the cornerstone of our collective history. Originally produced by the W.D. & […]
Read moreE. Roberts This is the weather I live for—hot, humid, and hot. What some disparagingly refer to as the dog days of summer, I refer to as thank God I’m […]
Read moreE. Roberts Perambulating about the Upper East Side the other day I saw the remnants of an apartment move-out on the sidewalk, looking for all the world like a shipwreck […]
Read moreE. Roberts Summer’s here, finally, and the time is right for dancing in the streets. And by "dancing in the streets" I mean, of course, settling into a comfortable lawn […]
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