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Author Cash, Wanda Garner, author.

Title Pancho Villa's saddle at the Cadillac Bar : recipes and memories / Wanda Garner Cash.

Publication Info. College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, [2020]
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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource
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Summary "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.
Note Includes index
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Mayo -- 2. Porter Joins the Business -- 3. What the Cadillac Looked Like -- 4. The Cast of Characters -- 5. The Flood -- 6. Meeting Up at the Cadillac -- 7. The Party's Over -- 8. Recipes from the Cadillac -- Afterword -- Timeline -- Index
Note Print version record.
Subject Bessan, Mayo, 1885-1970.
Garner, Porter S., Jr., 1923-2007.
Cadillac Bar (Nuevo Laredo, Mexico)
Restaurateurs -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- Biography.
Bars (Drinking establishments) -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- History.
Restaurants -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- History.
Bartending -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- Anecdotes.
Restaurant management -- Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo -- Anecdotes.
Cooking, Cajun.
Cooking, American -- Louisiana style.
Mexican American cooking.
Nuevo Laredo (Mexico) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Laredo (Tex.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
Bars (Drinking establishments) (OCoLC)fst00827779
Bartending. (OCoLC)fst00827818
Cooking, American -- Louisiana style. (OCoLC)fst01753228
Cooking, Cajun. (OCoLC)fst01753267
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Mexican American cooking. (OCoLC)fst01754136
Restaurant management. (OCoLC)fst01095899
Restaurants. (OCoLC)fst01095907
Restaurateurs. (OCoLC)fst01095966
Mexico -- Nuevo Laredo. (OCoLC)fst01222612
Texas -- Laredo. (OCoLC)fst01217217
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Cash, Wanda Garner. Pancho Villa's saddle at the Cadillac Bar. First edition. College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, [2020] 9781623498986 (DLC) 2020011877 (OCoLC)1147929738
ISBN 9781623498993 (electronic book)
1623498996 (electronic book)
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