Stuffed, Patricia Volk
Stuffed, Patricia Volk
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Stuffed
Adventures Of A Restaurant Family

Author: Patricia Volk

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 7 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/25/2005


Synopsis

This funny and charming memoir tells about a biggerthanlife New York family that owned fourteen restaurants, including Morgens in the garment district. Sharing life and good food for three generations, the family exhibited a voracious appetite for life.

About Patricia Volk

Patricia
Volk is the author of the memoir Stuffed:
Adventures of a Restaurant Family and four works of fiction. She has
written for the New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and Playboy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bibliolicious on March 14, 2012

This book was a surprise for me. Though it is about a restaurant life and loosely organized by food topics, it is much more about family--the good, the bad and the ugly. Though I sometimes lost track of the relationship of one particular person to her, I loved the deep sense of respect and affection......more

Goodreads review by pianogal on September 03, 2014

You would think that a book that claims to be about a restaurant family would have more in it about the actual restaurant. This book was simply a bragfest about the Volk family and how they were the best wreckers in NY, and how they brought pastrami to the New World...blah blah blah.If you want to r......more

Goodreads review by Alison on July 13, 2007

I couldn't stop reading this book. It's one of the best memoirs I've ever read--hilarious, full of memorable characters, and told in short vignettes woven into the longer narrative of the family's life so things never get boring. I highly recommend it.......more

Goodreads review by Book Concierge on February 26, 2016

I thought this memoir would be about running a restaurant, full of funny and perhaps poignant anecdotes. But it's really about love and family relationships. The chapters on her father are especially touching and memorable. I'm very glad I read this work.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 13, 2023

Touching and funny. I really enjoyed this read!......more