Excerpt XI from the Kaplowitz Media. Unnamed Cigar Dictionary Project

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Excerpt XI from the Kaplowitz Media. Unnamed Cigar Dictionary (UCD) Project

This installment of UCD excerpts will be the last one for a while. Why? Because I'm closing in on first draft completion and have to step back behind the curtain in preparation for my next trick. Also, I'm closing in on my last-half of February yearly hiatus which begins on the 14th and ends on March 1. During that period of time away, I'll be pumping a lot of energy into this project, and we'll see where we stand when that then has become our now.

::: EXCERPT :::

American Market Selection (AMS) During the mid 20th century, this was a term used by manufacturers to describe the American cigar smoker’s preference toward Candela (double claro) offerings. Nowadays, the American palate has turned more to “flavor-bombs” and spicier fare. At some point post-Cigar Boom, many smokers began to prefer looking at cigars as a challenge instead of as a relaxant. This most likely has to do with some sort of privilege and/or undiagnosed low testosterone levels. Nevertheless, chances are if you’re watching an old black & white flick, Bogey’s stogies are green as rookies at training camp.

Candela Or Double Claro. Sometimes it tastes like melted butter poured over a grassy side salad then sprinkled with table sugar but I love the stuff. These sticks are as green as a nauseated Kermit the Frog [cue raunchy Ms. Piggy joke] and are made that way by picking immature leaves for quickened Fermentation and heat-curing which serves to lock in the chlorophyll, giving them their jade complexion. Those are the clef notes of the process. This could have been a very long entry. Want more? Also see: American Market Selection (AMS)

Fermentation How to succinctly define a thing so important and many-fold? Fermentation is the process by which tobacco is able to be smoked sans making the smoker quite sick. This because it is designed and employed in order to remove chemicals and impurities. See: Bulk an/or Pilon. AKA curing and sweating.

And there you have another UCD excerpt. Please note that the italicized entries were not all plugged in here (e.g. AMS/Candela) due to them having spots in other excerpts. This means that if you are interested in doing-so, you can search them via the Search Kaplowitz Media. thingy to the right of the screen.

Heck, maybe come March 1, I'll have a name to pin on this thing. Although UCD does have a nice ring of lazy familiarity to it.

::: FONT GUIDE :::

Excerpt from the work-in-progress book (UCD).
My thoughts on the work-in-progress book (UCD).
Italics within definitions are recommendations to see that entry.

::: WHAT DID I JUST READ? :::

As you Gentlepersons hopefully know or are at the ::: very ::: least now FINALLY aware of under that rock of yours, I am constructing a Cigar Dictionary. A book. It is yet to have been named. Its working title is "Unnamed Cigar Dictionary" (UCD). I will change that "As soon as possible" (ASAP). Nevertheless, the idea of the whole thing, the game plan, is that I will blog the process of creating & assembling the UCD on a non-scheduled basis.

Included in these blog posts will be my italicized thoughts regarding said creating & assembling process--and as we get closer to it being a book proper, the process of that, as well. THESE WILL NOT BE INCLUDED IN THE FINISHED BOOK. Please note that not everything, including the whole or part of definitions, will appear in the finished book.

To read other excerpts, search Unnamed Cigar Dictionary or UCD, in the Search Kaplowitz Media. field to the right of your screen. The Blog Archive can also be perused.

The completion of this project has *NO TIMEFRAME.

::: very :::