Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar (eBook)

Recipes and Memories

Wanda Garner Cash (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
160 Seiten
Texas A&M University Press (Verlag)
978-1-62349-899-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In 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.In 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 envueltos. Step into the Cadillac Bar and take a seat. You'll want to stay awhile.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.12.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken
• Themenwelt: Reisen
• ISBN-10: 1-62349-899-6 / 1623498996
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62349-899-3 / 9781623498993