| Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir Contributor(s): Volk, Patricia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375724990 ISBN-13: 9780375724992 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2002 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Cooking | Essays & Narratives - Biography & Autobiography | Culinary |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2001033822 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.22" W x 8" (0.52 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |