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"In a restaurant family, you're never just hungry - you're starving to death. And you're never full - you're stuffed.".
"Patricia Volk's family is as American (background: Austrian-Jewish) as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark; each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was known as "the Most Destructive Force on Wall Street" and was memorialized by E. B. White as "the greatest wrecker of all time" for his innovative method of demolition.
Uncle Albert was the first man to stir scallions into cream cheese. The last of Grandfather Herman Morgen's fourteen restaurants was a famous garment center hangout. One grandmother won the 1916 trophy for "Best Legs in Atlantic City." The other was a three-hundred-pound calendar girl. Ms. Volk's handsome, demanding restaurateur father invented the Six-color Retractable Pen and Pencil Set and the Double-sided Cigarette Lighter (so you never have to worry which end is up).
For three generations, just about every Volk and Morgen (with the exception of Uncle Al, who had an eleven-year affair with Aunt Lil and then refused to marry her because she wasn't a virgin) has, no matter what the circumstances, exhibited a terrifyingly positive attitude. With a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of them - the tyrants, do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakes - lived at full tilt." "Stuffed is a wildly funny yet unsparing look at how families work."--BOOK JACKET.
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Stuffed
April 7, 2003, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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0747561710 9780747561712
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
April 2003, Blackstone Audiobooks
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0786193301 9780786193301
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, Library Edition
March 2003, Blackstone Audiobooks
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078612377X 9780786123773
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family, Library Edition
March 2003, Blackstone Audiobooks
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0786190582 9780786190584
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
April 2003, Blackstone Audiobooks
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078612413X 9780786124138
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family (Beeler)
March 2002, Thomas T. Beeler Publisher
Hardcover
in English
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1574903934 9781574903935
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
October 22, 2002, Vintage
in English
0375724990 9780375724992
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
October 2, 2001, Knopf
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0375411062 9780375411069
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