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Single-Farm Components: Carolina Red Flake with Perique

October 15, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Most of us take what we can find at the grocery store. Chefs, however, choose the highest quality ingredients that they can, some personally inspecting and selecting produce at the farm itself, guaranteeing the quality they require to achieve the creative combinations that make a night at a fine restaurant a meaningful event for the rest of us. A very few are so dedicated to quality ... Read More

Robert Williams Wood: Waves and Pipes

October 14, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Pipe smokers are almost always interesting people with rich lives, amazing professions, sophisticated talents, and fascinating hobbies. That's among the reasons that pipe shows are so fun. Meeting new people at shows and learning about their lives is always the best part of a show. It works that way with historical figures as well, one of whom was a prominent pipe smoking ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Cornell & Diehl Small Batch: Carolina Red Flake with Perique

October 13, 2021 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes! Today, I'll be taking a look at and reviewing Cornell & Diehl's latest Small Batch Carolina Red Flake with Perique! Today, I'll be discussing and reviewing the latest run of Cornell and Diehl's Small Batch: Carolina Red Flake with Perique — available Wednesday, October 20th. For this year's edition, C&D has combined stoved and ... Read More

A Giant Passes: Frank Burla

October 8, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Some make ripples across the surface of their hobbies. These small precise waves radiate outward and intersect with other ripples, combining for new directions and more complex patterns that undulate across the entire pond. It's an impressive dynamic. Frank Burla cascaded onto the banks of the pipe-smoking pond with the ... Read More

Collecting: The Pipe

October 7, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Many pipe enthusiasts are collectors. We collect a particular shape, or pipes made by a particular brand, or of a particular finish, or within certain manufacture dates, or, well, the different permutations are endless. Danish bent pipes, American straight pipes, Italian rusticated pipes, Castello shape 55 pipes made before 2010, Barling Pre-Transition Billiards, miniature corncob ... Read More

A Closer Look at Burley

October 6, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Burley is a relatively young tobacco varietal, dating only to 1864, but it became very popular very fast. Two planters, George Webb and Joseph Fore, are credited with Burley's discovery. They procured seeds from a tobacco plant in Kentucky that was different: it had leaves that were less broad and of white/yellow tint, and they tried planting these seeds in southern Ohio. The ... Read More

A Pipe Prank Played on Mark Twain

October 1, 2021 by Chuck Stanion

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Mark Twain was a near constant smoker, an enthusiast of both pipes and cigars to a level that brought admiring and bewildered comments from his acquaintances. His niece called him "the smokiest man alive," and his friend William Dean Howells said, "he smoked as much as a man could, for he smoked incessantly." ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: October 2021

September 30, 2021 by Andrew Wike

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It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some of our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find twelve unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Warped Scarecrow

September 29, 2021 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes. Today, I'll be reviewing a very special mixture, just in time for Spooky Season: Warped's 2021 Halloween blend, Scarecrow — available Friday, October 1st, 2021, only at Smokingpipes. The diabolical minds of Kyle Gellis of Warped Cigars and Jeremy Reeves of Cornell and Diehl have come together again to release a limited-edition blend ... Read More

The Hygge of Danish Pipe Making

September 24, 2021 by Truett Smith

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Widely considered the Mecca of pipe making, Denmark is home to some of the most illustrious and prolific pipe makers in the world. The Danes are credited with pioneering artisan pipe making, and they've both contributed a distinctive pipe design aesthetic and developed engineering techniques and standards that have elevated the craft. ... Read More

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