The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir
(Part of the Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography Series)
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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 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1617030821
ISBN13:9781617030826
Release Date:September 2011
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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