![]() Imagine - a new band, five versatile creative players who obviously delight in the music and in the joyous collaboration. No, it’s hot music - and this recording - featuring Freddie Keppard and Jimmie Noone - its label as examplar:Īll that is wondrous historical evidence, but here’s something fresh and spicy: pianist / singer Carl Sonny Leyland and cornetist Marc Caparone’s performance of HERE COMES THE HOT TAMALE MAN at the 2017 Durango Ragtime and Early Jazz Festival, video-recorded by YouTube’s “banjojudy” (that’s Judy Muldawerto the rest of the world) - who recorded a great deal of the Durango Festival, March 24-26, both audio and video, and offers it to us here. But food history is not really my subject, although I wouldn’t chase away a hot tamale vendor beneath my window. When I was Craig Ventresco’s guest in San Francisco more than a decade ago, as we were entering some transit station, he pointed to a woman selling tamales from a small corner stand: pork or chicken, a dollar apiece, and memorable.ĭining Chicago offers a feast of information about Chicago tamales, their origins (more African-American than Mexican) with appropriate musical examples. I mean Serious Food: the Hot Tamale Man! (Incidentally, for purposes of this post, I am - for once - putting aside all possible double-entendres arising from the shape and heat of this filled delicacy, and a tamale is a tamale.) Tamale sellers were a familiar phenomenon in cities, providing passers-by with inexpensive hot meals. Or the man who went door-to-door, selling uncooked pizza dough, plastic envelopes of tomato sauce and cheese as a less-expensive alternative to takeout pizza. I’m not talking about the Good Humor Man, the iceman, or the milkman. Before there was a way to order takeout food with your smartphone, before Blue Apron and Peapod sent the makings of meals and grocery orders to your door, there were mobile food vendors aplenty.
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