Owen Elliot-Kugell reveals in her new book that her mother, famously known as “Mama” Cass from the 1960s West Coast folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, did not die by choking on a ham ...

Cass Elliot was an influential figure in the ... school and eventually one of their parents would ask me ‘Did your mom really die choking on a ham sandwich?’ First of all, the chutzpah to ...