Bibliograph

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak, a New Orleans family memoir, Randy Fertel

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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak, a New Orleans family memoir, Randy Fertel

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

755605581

Responsibility statement

Randy Fertel

Series statement

Willie Morris books in memoir and biography

Sub title

a New Orleans family memoir

Summary

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 Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious repute just around the corner from where the teenage Louis Armstrong and his trumpet were discovered. When Fertel ran for mayor of New Orleans on a single campaign promise-buying a pair of gorillas for

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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