Luria and his wife Donna Nordin had one of Tucson's most famous restaurants, but his legacy lies in what he did outside the restaurant industry.
Cathalena E. Burch Former Tucson restaurateur Donald Luria would spit out ideas faster than Kate Marquez could write them down.
"Don dreams the dreams and we work the nightmare," was a joke that Donna Nordin, Luria's wife of 35 years, had with employees of the couple's storied foothills restaurant Café Terra Cotta."His brain was always thinking what could we do to help these nonprofits.” Luria was born in Philadelphia on March 15, 1935, and spent 20 years working in government including for the U.S. Census Bureau and former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry. He also worked for his family's behemoth Luria Steel & Trading Corporation, which built airport hangars around the country in the 1940s and '50s.
One of Luria's proudest accomplishments came in 1999, when he founded Tucson Originals Restaurants, an alliance of independent Tucson restaurants working together to raise the city's culinary profile. The group became a model for similar"originals" alliances nationwide.
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