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Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family
Patricia Volk
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Description for Stuffed: Growing Up in a Restaurant Family
Paperback. Evokes everyday life in a New York Jewish family and what it was like to grow up around an old fashioned family run restaurant. This work is a portrait of a fabulous family and a charming recreation of a lost era. Num Pages: 256 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BGBA; KNSH; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206.
'We were a restaurant family, four generations in a six-block radius. When you opened our fridge, food fell on your feet.' Three generations of Patricia Volk's family have been in the restaurant business. Her hallway was the colour of ball-park mustard, the living room was cocoa and the floor was like Genoa salami. At Morgen's, the famous restaurant in the garment district which her grandfather started and which her father ran, she was the princess. Waiters winked at her and twirled her napkin up high before draping it on her lap and when she wanted a hamburger, her grandfather would ... Read more
'We were a restaurant family, four generations in a six-block radius. When you opened our fridge, food fell on your feet.' Three generations of Patricia Volk's family have been in the restaurant business. Her hallway was the colour of ball-park mustard, the living room was cocoa and the floor was like Genoa salami. At Morgen's, the famous restaurant in the garment district which her grandfather started and which her father ran, she was the princess. Waiters winked at her and twirled her napkin up high before draping it on her lap and when she wanted a hamburger, her grandfather would ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747561712
SKU
V9780747561712
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Ref
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About Patricia Volk
Patricia Volk is the author of one novel and two collections of short stories. She is a contributor to the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, PLAYBOY, GQ and was a weekly columnist for NEW YORK NEWSDAY. She lives in New York City.
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