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Every Decent Old West Restaurant Table Held….

March 2015 Jana Bommersbach

trini-chow-chow-12-blogA bottle of a mustard­ pickle relish! In his autobiography, noted western surveyer Billy Owen wrote that restaurant tables in his day included “the ever­present bottle of Crosse & Blackwell’s Chow Chow.” The chow chow was imported from England and is still popular to this day.

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Arizona’s Journalist of the Year, Jana Bommersbach has won an Emmy and two Lifetime Achievement Awards. She also cowrote and appeared on the Emmy-winning Outrageous Arizona and has written two true crime books, a children’s book and the historical novel Cattle Kate.