The Bronx Pipe Smoking Society?

an opportunity to smoke custom tobacco blends from Fornal’s extensive collection of pipes,

Since the host of these meals is a pipe club, the culmination of the evening is the unveiling of the Pipe of the Year, made by Fornal and Brooklyn darling taxidermist Divya Anantharaman. This year’s was crafted from a massive, eight-foot-long golden python that died of old age in a zoo. The pipes’ designs are influenced by historic Scottish snuff mulls as well as the first pipes ever discovered: those from the Tremper Mounds in Ohio, made by the Hopewell Culture around 300 BCE. These small stone pipes were intricately carved in the shape of animal heads, “so that when you’re smoking, you’re seeing through that animal’s eyes, harnessing that animal’s spirit,” Fornal explains. “With our pipes, the idea is that you’re celebrating the animal; there’s an element of worship as opposed to objectification.”



So the diners in their finery ended the evening by drinking tea infused with snake meat and smoking tobacco mixed with the same