Margaret Suran wrote:

> The one baseball player who had a restaurant because of his love for
> good food was Rusty Staub, Le Grand Orange, who ended his career in New
> York with the Mets. He had a small restaurant a couple of blocks from
> where I live and cooked his famous ribs there. He was there all the
> time, cooking near the window, so all passers by could see, come inside
> and taste the ribs. He later had a restaurant on Fifth Avenue in the
> 50's and when that closed, he would come and prepare desserts in a
> friend's place on East 79th Street, Les Trois Jeans. The food in all
> three places was really good.
>
> I have a feeling, Goomba, that this is much more than you wanted to
> know. )
>
>

NOT at all! That is exactly what I wanted to hear! Someone who got into
it because they liked food, not because it was a business venture.

Burt Bacharach used to own a place near my family home, but I never went.