The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir by Fertel, Randy

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...
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Author: Randy Fertel
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The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir by Fertel, Randy

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir

¥6,598

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak: A New Orleans Family Memoir

¥6,598
Author: Randy Fertel
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 the zoo-he garnered a paltry 308 votes. Then he purchased the gorillas anyway!

These colorful figures yoked together two worlds not often connected-lazy rice farms in the bayous and swinging urban streets where ethnicities jazzily collided. A trip downriver to the hamlet of Happy Jack focuses on its French-Alsatian roots, bountiful tables, and self-reliant lifestyle that inspired a restaurant legend. The story also offers a close-up of life in the Old Jewish Quarter on Rampart Street-and how it intersected with the denizens of "Back a' Town," just a few blocks away, who brought jazz from New Orleans to the world.

The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is a New Orleans story, featuring the distinctive characters, color, food, and history of that city-before Hurricane Katrina and after. But it also is the universal story of family and the full magnitude of outsize follies leavened with equal measures of humor, rage, and rue.

Author: Randy Fertel
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781496804136

About the Author
Randy Fertel is a writer and president of both the Fertel Foundation and the Ruth U. Fertel Foundation. He has taught English at Harvard, Tulane, LeMoyne College, the University of New Orleans, and the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A Taste for Chaos: The Art of Literary Improvisation.


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