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Stuffed
Patricia Volk
其他書名
Adventures of a Restaurant Family: A Memoir
出版
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
, 2007-12-18
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Culinary
Cooking / Essays & Narratives
ISBN
0307427994
9780307427991
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2SsrfXbxDlQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.