{"id":6072,"date":"2011-09-15T10:04:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6072"},"modified":"2011-09-15T10:04:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T17:04:49","slug":"ruths-chris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6072","title":{"rendered":"From Whence Ruth’s Chris"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had this pal when I lived in New Orleans, Randy Fertel, whom I would join for lunch on occasion, along with a few other cool people, like Lolis Elie<\/a>, author of\u00a0 definitive bibles on BBQ, a contributing writer on Treme<\/a>;\u00a0 other interesting members of the local populi would join us, as well.<\/p>\n

I’m not exactly sure how I broke into this circle, but I was blessed for having an introduction to these people, their talents, and local knowledge.<\/p>\n

If the name Fertel isn’t familiar to you, let me tell you why it should be.\u00a0 Once upon a time in New Orleans (1965), a young mother named Ruth Fertel<\/a>, took a gamble on her and her children’s future, and bought an also-ran restaurant named “Chris’ Steak House.”\u00a0\u00a0 A condition of purchase was that Ruth would agree to keep the name “Chris” for some period of time.<\/p>\n

After a fire at the original location, Ruth relocated down the street, and renamed the establishment “Ruth’s Chris Steak House,”\u00a0 and the rest of that story you know.<\/p>\n

Randy is the remarkable son of remarkable parents, and he has memorialized his life with these two New Orleans giants in a book called ” The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak,”\u00a0 now available on Amazon <\/a>as well as other outlets.<\/p>\n

Randy is a great writer, with great stories.\u00a0\u00a0 Invest a bit of money and lots of time in the Gorilla Man yarn, and you’ll be richer for it.<\/p>\n

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I had this pal when I lived in New Orleans, Randy Fertel, whom I would join for lunch on occasion, along with a few other cool people, like Lolis Elie, author of\u00a0 definitive bibles on BBQ, a contributing writer on Treme;\u00a0 other interesting members of the local populi would join us, as well. I’m not… Continue reading From Whence Ruth’s Chris<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[2421,2976,3066],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}