![]() Cold temperatures produce flakes that look like bullets or needles. They start as spheres and form tendrils to diffuse heat. And even though every snowflake is different, they’re not as unique as we’ve been told. Snow tends to fall in places where other snow has already fallen. But as soon as one extra crystal crosses the tipping point, the structure will succumb to gravity and fall. As long as the growing snowflake remains lighter than air, it will float. A piece of dust forms a crystal, and the appearance of that crystal attracts more crystals until they form long dendrites around the speck of dust like ants around a piece of chocolate. She claims they are not addictive like cigarettes, and says that "Cigars, in fact, helped me give up cigarettes.When snow falls, the properties of water perform a delicate dance. Some days she can smoke three, or she may go a week without smoking one. Some people start their day with a cigar, says Blanca, but she prefers to start smoking a little later. You go from the smoothest to the strongest ones." Cigars, in fact, helped me give up cigarettes. But if it's expensive, you'll smoke it all. You start by smoking smooth cigars, not the expensive ones. While most of Blanca's customers are men, she says women are learning to smoke cigars 'well,' which means, she says, "Choosing an excellent cigar, not for the label but its taste, and taking into account the moment or the occasion. One, Ana, runs a tobacco shop, and the other, Lucía, while a physician, did a masters course in Cuba on cigars and now runs classes and workshops at La Casa del Habano. She has two sons and two daughters, and the girls inherited their mother's taste for cigars. Her children have done the same, she adds. Her father Miguel, a pilot, smoked them, and at the age of 15 she and her younger brother would steal and smoke some. The firm celebrated its 30th anniversary on May 16.Īlsogaray loves Cuban cigars, which remind her of her big childhood home in the city's Belgrano district. We're going to have a big party," she said. "I want to celebrate these 30 years, and the prize. Now habanos are sold in 150 outlets worldwide. At the time there were only two sellers anywhere of Cuba's premium, hand-rolled cigars, the other one being in Mexico. "I really do deserve it."Īlsogaray opened her shop in 1993. "It recognizes a lifetime's work, which I consider so important as Argentina isn't an easy place for business, and less so being a woman." She was competing with two men. ![]() "It's a sexist world for sure, but I won," she said of a prize which was called "Habano Man" ( Hombre habano) until this year, when the word was changed for her. She says these prizes are not unlike the "Oscars of cigars." ![]() The latter went to Blanca Alsogaray, owner of the Buenos Aires shop La Casa del Habano. A prize is given to an outstanding personality in one of three areas: production, communication and sales. But this year, for the first time, a Latin American woman has won one of three awards given at the 23rd Habano Festival in Cuba.Įvery year since 2000, the Festival has gathered the top players in the world of Cuban cigars including sellers, distributors, specialists and aficionados. BUENOS AIRES - Cigars are traditionally reserved for a man's world. ![]()
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