Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar
Cash, Wanda Garner
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 Ba...