[Sca-cooks] Semi-topical query re one of The Hundred: Cigars

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:55 AM, Stefan li Rous
<StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Is the tobacco for these grown in Ireland?  I wouldn't have thought tobacco
> would grow there. I thought it required a more southerly climate.

Two words: Gulf Stream.  There are parts of western Ireland where palm
trees grow.

Brighid ni Chiarain