The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak : a New Orleans family memoir

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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fe...

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Main Author: Fertel, Randy (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011
Series:Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
Subjects:
Fertel, Rodney.
Fertel, Ruth.
Fertel, Randy > Childhood and youth.
Fertel, Randy > Family.
Restaurateurs > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
Businesspeople > Louisiana > New Orleans > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > Biography.
New Orleans (La.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic book.
collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Overture
  • Hot Springs
  • Home movies and snapshots
  • Thoroughbreds
  • South Rampart Street
  • Happy Jack
  • Bienville School
  • Congo Square
  • Dad's day
  • Travels with Papa Dad
  • Chris Steak House
  • Eshu on the bayou
  • Searching for Odysseus
  • Ruth's Chris Steak House
  • Corporate and other carnivores
  • Breaking the Napoleonic code
  • The Empress of Steak
  • Embracing Pahrump
  • The Empress's last levee
  • Coda: Katrina's aftermath.

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