Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir

Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry-your starving to death, and you're never just full-you're stuffed. Volk's family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introduced pastrami to America until 1988, when her father closed his garment center restaurant. All along, food was pretty much at the center of their lives. But as seductively as Volk evokes the food, Stuffed is at heart a paean to her quirky, vibrant relatives: her grandmother with the "best legs in Atlantic City"; her grandfather, who invented the wrecking ball; her larger-than-life father, who sculpted snow thrones when other dads were struggling with snowmen. Writing with great freshness and humor, Patricia Volk will leave you hungering to sit down to dinner with her robust family-both for the spectacle and for the food.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 10/22/2002
ISBN: 9780375724992
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.22w x 0.51d

Review Citations: New York Times 10/27/2002 pg. 28