The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak : a New Orleans family memoir /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
©2011.
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Colección: | Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 293 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781617030833 161703083X 1283275139 9781283275132 9781496801135 149680113X |