Astor Piazzolla performing in Paris in 1977.Roger Viollet (Getty)
They say that Argentine tango musician Astor Piazzolla was bad-tempered. But his countrymen gave as good as they got: âPeople insulted him in the street. A taxi driver accused him of killing tango, and refused to give him a ride,â recalls his widow, Laura Escalada. As one might imagine, that is not her view of the bandoneon player and pioneer of âtango nuevoâ â a form of music that incorporates new elements into the traditional genre. âHe was a very sweet man, tender, very shy,â says Escalada. âWe all have a rough character if we are beaten.â
Blonde blizzard from Waco was queen of the clubs during Roaring 20s
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The American actress and nightclub owner Texas Guinan. Paris. 29th May 1931.Imagno, Contributor / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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The American actress and nightclub owner Texas Guinan (in white coat) with her girls. Le Havre. 2nd June 1931.Imagno, Contributor / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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UNITED STATES - CIRCA 1920: Mary Texas Guinan, queen of New York s night life for nearly a decade during the Prohibition era, who is said to have made $700,000 in ten months in the 1920 s selling liquor.New York Daily News Archive, Contributor / NY Daily News via Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
In 1933, the 21st Amendment was passed, ending pohibition on a national level, but leaving the decision regarding alcohol regulations and sales up to each individual state and while things were reversed eighty-eight years ago, the laws of yesteryear remain in place for several towns in New York, including a few in our area.
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Those who supported Prohibition (in New York State from 1920 through 1933). included the Anti-Saloon League, Protestant churches, and even the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. Supporters believed that prohibition in New York would not only make things safer, but that people would be in better health and the economy would grow.
by Pen Vogler (Atlantic £20, 480 pp)
‘Tell me what you eat,’ pronounced 19th-century French gastronome Brillat-Savarin, ‘and I will tell you what you are.’
In Britain, few things better reveal our place in the nation’s complex class structure than our eating habits. When do you eat ‘dinner’? At midday or in the early evening?
Why did the avocado become such a signifier of ‘middle class’? How did oysters, food of the poor in Victorian England, become a delicacy for the better off?
Pen Vogler provides a fascinating social history of British food through the centuries and throws in a selection of enticing recipes from the past for good measure.