Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family

"In a clear rebuke to the dozens of whiney, resentful, neglected and abused memoirists who've dominated the field in recent years, Volk declares that her family was both fascinating and lovable....Despite the book's subtitle, "Adventures of a Restaurant Family...," STUFFED doesn't have much to do with food. Yes, there's a preamble about what the family ate, and the chapter titles...refer cutely to dishes that have bit parts, but aside from the chapters that bookend the narrative, little of the action takes place either in the family restaurant or in the kitchen....Food or no food, the real problem with this well-intentioned, engagingly written book is that many of Volk's relatives aren't all that interesting."Patricia Volk is the author of 'Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family' with ISBN 9780786193301 and ISBN 0786193301.