Stuffed: Adventures Of a Restaurant Family

Written by:
Patricia Volk
Narrated by:
Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
7
Narrator
1
Release Date
June 2005
Duration
7 hours 49 minutes
Summary
Patricia Volk's delicious, charming, and wildly funny memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating, and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry—you're 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.
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Shelly

I'm a foodie who had a Jewish grandmother. I was born and raised in Brooklyn and later lived in New York. Maybe that's why this book resonated with me and why I found it so endearing. No matter what your cultural background, if you have a restaurant family, if you're a foodie, or if you have some wacky relative, I think you'll enjoy this book. Right before or after reading it, I'd recommend The Kid Stays in the Picture by Robert Evans, because the author came from the same neighborhood and he is referenced in Stuffed.

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stacia starbeck

To be honest, her life is just not that interesting. Aunt so and so head dirt under her fingernails. This particular dish tastes good.' We like the beach. I gave it a few hours. Perhaps after five or six hours something monumental happens besides grandpa like to buy restaurants

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Anonymous

What a great book! A book about family and relationships, with an order of laughter on the side. Couldn't wait to get back to the car to listen to more installments!

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Anonymous

I enjoyed this book, the reader was very good, too. It was funny and sad.

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