{"product_id":"pancho-villas-saddle-at-the-cadillac-bar-recipes-and-memories-9781623498986","title":"Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar: Recipes and Memories","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1924, Achilles Mehault \"Mayo\" Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo into a bar and restaurant renowned across the United States for its fine seafood and fancy cocktails. The Cadillac Bar built a reputation as one of the finest eateries and watering holes in the Southwest, even surviving a 1954 flood that devastated cities on both sides of the Rio Grande. Its history sprawls across more than a half-century and its food and drink drew inspiration from the culinary traditions of southern Louisiana, from pre-Prohibition New Orleans, and from the dusty border towns that straddle the Rio Grande in far South Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her introduction, author Wanda Garner Cash writes, \"I grew up behind the bar: first child and first grandchild. I spoke Spanish before I spoke English and I learned my numbers counting coins at my grandfather's desk . . . I rode Pancho Villa's saddle on a sawhorse in the main dining room, with a toy six-shooter in my holster. I fed the monkeys and parrots my grandfather kept in the Cadillac's parking lot.\" Readers will find themselves drawn to a different, more languid time: when Laredo society matrons passed long afternoons in the bar, sipping Ramos Gin Fizzes; when fraternity miscreants slouched into the Cadillac to recover from adventures \"South of the Border\"; when tourists waited in long lines for 40-cent tequila sours and plates of chicken \u003ci\u003eenvueltos\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Step into the Cadillac Bar and take a seat. You'll want to stay awhile.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/28\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781623498986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Wanda Garner Cash","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38213771329717,"sku":"9781623498986","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e7c376a3-f5e6-487d-9aaa-d185566074de.jpg?v=1610442779","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pancho-villas-saddle-at-the-cadillac-bar-recipes-and-memories-9781623498986","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}