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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak : a New Orleans family memoir
- Author
- Fertel, Randy.
- Title
- The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak : a New Orleans family memoir / Randy Fertel.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2011.
- Description
- x, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Uniform series
- Willie Morris books in memoir and biography.
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-291).
- Contents
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- 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.
- Subject headings
- Fertel, Randy--Childhood and youth. Fertel, Rodney. Fertel, Ruth. Fertel, Randy--Family. Restaurateurs--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography. Businesspeople--Louisiana--New Orleans--Biography. New Orleans (La.)--Biography. New Orleans (La.)--Social life and customs.
- ISBN
- 9781617030826 (cloth : alk. paper) 1617030821 (cloth : alk. paper) 9781617030833 (ebook) 161703083X (ebook)