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

by Randy Fertel

Book Overview

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"