The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak : 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781617030826
ISBN: 1617030821
ISBN: 9781617030833
ISBN: 9781283275132
ISBN: 161703083X
ISBN: 1283275139
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, �2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:september.21 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.