Female Cigar Roller Is a Rarity but Finds a Niche

(NYTimes) Ana Pérez reached into a pile of Connecticut shade tobacco leaves and placed one on the small table in front of her. She began spraying the leaf with water and carving it up with a chaveta knife.
“These leaves are very temperamental, just like women,” Ms. Pérez told a group of men surrounding her at a corporate event on a recent weeknight in Midtown Manhattan. Continued