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Patricia Volk’s mother Audrey was an upper-middle class New Yorker, a great beauty, a perfectionist, and a polished hostess who believed in women doing things the proper way. The iconoclastic Italian fashion designer, Elsa Schiaparelli, on the other hand, never found a rule she didn’t want to break. One of fashion’s most radical provocateurs, she was a cultural revolutionary who embodied the ‘daring’.For Patricia, who read Schiap’s autobiograp...

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This collection of short stories by Patricia Volk shares heartwarming and comical tales of the relationships between wives, husbands, mothers, sisters, and daughters.From "Mystery Salad" to "Something Wet in the Dark, " All it Takes is a charming and heartfelt collection of stories that are sure to remind readers of the enchanting relationships among family members and the puzzling stages of love. With fifteen stories from the perspective of w...

An NPR Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year How does a girl fashion herself into a woman? In this richly illustrated memoir, writer Patricia Volk juxtaposes her two childhood idols to find her answer. Her mother, Audrey, was an upper-middle-class New Yorker and a great beauty-meticulously groomed, proudly conventional. Elsa Schiaparelli was an avant-garde fashion designer whose creations broke every rule and elevated ...

From the bestselling author of "Stuffed" comes a richly illustrated memoir, written with charm and panache, that juxtaposes two lives--an iconoclastic Italian fashion designer and the author's mother--to explore how a girl fashions herself into a woman.

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Patricia Volk's delicious, charming, and wildly funny memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating, and wonderful family, where you're never just hungry--you're starving to death, and you're never just full--you're stuffed. Volk's family fed New York City for one hundred years, from 1888 when her great-grandfather introduced pastrami to America until 1988, when her father closed his garment center restaurant. All along, fo...

Alice and Nanny have never met before, but they have one thing in common: their late friend Roberta. Alice is the prim proprietor of a chic Madison Avenue shop, while Nanny is a sharp-eyed Manhattan real-estate broker. This New York odd couple is thrown together when Roberta trusts them with her last request—that together they open her safe-deposit box. What they find inside compels these women to address a surprising truth about their beloved...

Volk's delicious memoir lets readers into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and wonderful family, where one is never just hungry--one is stuffed. But as seductively as Volk evokes the family cuisine business, "Stuffed" is at heart a paean to her quirky, vibrant relatives.

In this wildly funny and charming memoir, Patricia Volk entertains with a memoir of growing up in a New York restaurant family that owned fourteen restaurants including Morgens deli. An evocative portrait of a now vanished New York.