So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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When I'm not eating my favorite activity is reading about food. This book is a smorgasbord of culinary annecdotes from a family so immersed in food that every memory goes back to a delicious dish. Volk's great grandfather brougth pastrami to New York and later generations ran restaurants throughout the city. The book reads like a family tree made up of comfort food meals.
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Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family by Patricia Volk
Serra, April 2, 2006
When I'm not eating my favorite activity is reading about food. This book is a smorgasbord of culinary annecdotes from a family so immersed in food that every memory goes back to a delicious dish. Volk's great grandfather brougth pastrami to New York and later generations ran restaurants throughout the city. The book reads like a family tree made up of comfort food meals.(12 of 21 readers found this comment helpful)