{"product_id":"stuffed-adventures-of-a-restaurant-family-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia Volk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia 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, \u003cb\u003eStuffed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Volk is the author of the memoir \u003cb\u003eStuffed\u003c\/b\u003e; the novels \u003cb\u003eTo My Dearest Friends \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eWhite Light\u003c\/b\u003e; and two collections of short stories, \u003cb\u003eAll it Takes\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Yellow Banana\u003c\/b\u003e. She has published stories, book reviews, and essays in dozens of newspapers and magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e. She was a weekly columnist for New York \u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e, and she lives in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 8 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 22, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50477736722680,"sku":"9780375724992","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/1tpPJbtY-i9780375724992.webp?v=1789019479","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/stuffed-adventures-of-a-restaurant-family-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}