Sigmund Freud once said, "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar," at which point he mistakenly attempted to light the lollipop dangling from his lower lip. Dig into the psychology of stogies with today's Groupon: for $15, you get $30 worth of cigars, pipes, lighters, humidors, and accessories at The Tinder Box in the Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie.
For 36 years, The Tinder Box has supplied puffing enthusiasts with more than 150 pipes and fine cigars from brands such as Davidoff, Padrón, and Arturo Fuente. Friendly on-staff tobacconists expertly navigate patrons to the store’s walk-in humidor, where a showcase of premium cigars for the novice and connoisseur and cardboard cutouts of Humphrey Bogart age to complexity. After perusing pipes by brands such as Ardor and Savinelli, customers can transport olfactory cavities to the Dominican Republic with the robust aromas of Arturo Fuente cigars ($3.35–$10.85 each).
Like-minded enthusiasts can congregate to take puffs from holiday gift packs such as the Romeo y Julieta Collection, which includes an ashtray ($36.75), or a three-pack of La Gloria Cubana Serie R cigars ($22.20) to celebrate the birth of triplets. Humidors, such as the Chateau Cherry ($29.95) ensure cigars are kept to their zenith of freshness, and accessories such as the New Orleans Lampe Berger Frangrance ($18.95) or the Lampe Berger Swirl Clear Glass lamp ($45) appeal to the more aesthetic side of patrons. The Tinder Box is located in the Lakeside Shopping Center next to P.F. Chang's.
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The Groupon Guide to: Kitchen Basics
Whether you're a master chef or you thought that kitchens were just an old wives' tale and are only learning that they're real right now by reading this, you need a few basic cooking utensils to help you turn worthless, disparate ingredients into useable food. Every kitchen must have:
- One saucepan. This is a pan that you can melt down into a sauce.
- Ten mixing bowls. This allows you to mix 10 different ingredients separately so that they don't have to touch and get all over each other.
- Between six and seven stoves. If a "recipe" (that's just a snobby word for "food instructions") calls for a dish to be cooked at 300 degrees for 30 minutes, it's actually much faster to cook it for 10 minutes at a time in three different ovens set to 100 degrees.
- One refrigerator full of sharp knives.
- One whisk so that guests will see it and think you must really be good at cooking.
- One cutting board, which is a wooden block filed down to a serrated edge. You use it to chop vegetables, but you'll also want to have some sort of mat or hard, flat surface to cut them on.
- A family of chickens. They make food—eggs!—and turn into food! They're awesome.
- Nine 1-gallon jugs of olive oil. This delicious flavoring is used in practically every food instruction to make the food taste like olives.
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