The family name was Joachim ( pronounced " joe-ACK-him ", as Harry himself explained on a Joe Franklin TV interview ), but eldest brother Al, a vaudeville dancer, adopted a new professional name after he saw the name " Ritz " on the side of a laundry truck.
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To stock the larder of his first restaurant on the Big Island, he had to resort to all sorts of improvisations, diving himself for sea urchins, recruiting aging flower children to grow vegetables for him, even persuading the driver of a laundry truck to deliver baby lambs raised by a rancher in a distant corner of the island.
