Pancho Villa's saddle at the Cadillac Bar : recipes and memories

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Cash, Wanda Garner, author

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"This is the story of two cities joined by the Rio Grande and two men who endured that flood: the author's grandfather, Mayo Bessan, and her father, Porter S. Garner Jr., who married Bessan's only ...

"This is the story of two cities joined by the Rio Grande and two men who endured that flood: the author's grandfather, Mayo Bessan, and her father, Porter S. Garner Jr., who married Bessan's only daughter in 1946. The tale sprawls across more than a half-century, and ranges from the culinary traditions of southern Louisiana to pre-Prohibition New Orleans to the dusty border towns that straddle the Rio Grande in far South Texas. The Cadillac Bar attracted wildcatters and lawmakers, celebrities and tourists. It spawned imitators across the United States until Mexico's economic and political instability caused the Garner family to hand over the keys to the waiters in 1979 and walk away"--Provided by publisher.

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