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Title: Stuffed : Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk ISBN: 0-375-72499-0 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 22 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful book
Comment: As a deli owner's daughter with a big quirky family of my own I was predisposed to love this book before I even turned the first page. Patricia Volk shows us that life is really in the details as she paints vivid, strikingly honest, funny and always loving portraits of her immediate and extended family. She also captures and preserves for us a time and culture in New York City that is fading into memory. Her stories about her family's elders makes you want you want to reach back into the past and pull forward all the grandmothers and grandfathers, and aunts and uncles and mothers and fathers who've left us already, so that they can walk through our lives and down the streets of NYC
one more time. Her chapter about her father's illness and death will resonate deeply with anyone who has accompanied someone they loved through the process of dying. My mother always said "As long as you can laugh and cry at the same time you know you're OK". This book strikes that balance beautifully.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Trip Down Memory Lane
Comment: I LOVED THIS BOOK. And when I think of why I did there are several reasons. To begin with I also grew up in Manhattan like Ms. Volk and lived next door to and around the corner from my large multi-generational Jewish family. Like Ms. Volk I can also remember leaving for camp via Grand Central and shopping at now defunct NY stores like Best & Co.with my mother. I might also have loved this book because for close to 40 years my father was in the catering business and I too can remember our food being delivered and that general feeling of being stuffed. And wasn't I surpirsed as I read this book that I even knew a couple of people the author wrote about in this wonderful memoir. But most of all I loved this book because it brought back to me many of my childhood memories and a way of life which I remember and is now sadly gone as we grow up and our world today is so differnt from the way it used to be. No matter what the reason, though, I lapped this book up and gulped it down. And now I keep suggesting it to everyone who will listen to read this book because as much as this is a New York tale, I think it has a broad appeal for readers everywhere who enjoy the story of a family not only devoted to the restaurant business but to each other as well.
Like Ruth Reichl's two memoirs, Tender at the Bone and Comfort Me with Apples, the author has done a fine job of describing her family, the restaurant business and her own accomplishments. This book was a pleasure to read and now I say Bon Apetit to you Ms. Volk. I know I will read this book again and again and and will savor it a bit more each time.
Rating: 3
Summary: pretty, semi-witty, not too wise
Comment: Despite that awful cover photo, the ones inside offer proof that Volk's was indeed a physically attractive family.
I feel I ought to mention this, as her family's beauty seems to be one of the top three qualities that Volk is most proud of.
The book, unlike Ruth Reichl's, does not take you behind the scenes of the restaurant business, but behind the scenes of Volk's privileged upbringing. It is worth spending an hour with, but look elsewhere for what the book is being marketed as.
Last, I was disappointed that not the slightest effort is made to pull all the vignettes together into some sort of intelligent conclusion. If you can't afford the book, just seek out a witty friend and buy her lunch, you'll come away with the same feeling. We don't expect profundity from our nearest and dearest, but many expect an author to make some effort.
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Title: Tender at the Bone : Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0767903382 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 02 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Let Us Eat Cake : Adventures in Food and Friendship by Sharon Boorstin ISBN: 0060012846 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl ISBN: 0375758739 Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten ISBN: 0375702024 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Endless Feasts : Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet by Ruth Reichl, Gourmet Magazine Editors ISBN: 0375759921 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 22 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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