The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak
Subtitle: a New Orleans family memoir
By: Randy Fertel
Series: Willie Morris books in memoir and biography; Willie Morris books in memoir and biography
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781617030826; 9781617030833
Subjects: Social life and customs; Restaurateurs; Family; Businesspeople; Biography; Childhood and youth
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-291).
Table of contents: title: Overture; title: Hot Springs; title: Home movies and snapshots; title: Thoroughbreds; title: South Rampart Street; title: Happy Jack; title: Bienville School; title: Congo Square; title: Dad's day; title: Travels with Papa Dad; title: Chris Steak House; title: Eshu on the bayou; title: Searching for Odysseus; title: Ruth's Chris Steak House; title: Corporate and other carnivores; title: Breaking the Napoleonic code; title: The Empress of Steak; title: Embracing Pahrump; title: The Empress's last levee; title: Coda: Katrina's aftermath.