Stuffed : adventures of a restaurant family / Patricia Volk 251 p.

Patricia Volk relates all about her family from their arrival in the New World as each generation in a wildly humorous way.  The Volks are loaded with characters from Grandfather Jacob who was known as the "most destructive force on Wall Street" and memorized by E.B. White as the "greatest wrecker of all time" (no he wasn't a financial wizard), to a grandmother who was a 300 pound calendar girl, to her own father who invented things like a 6-color retractable pen as well as carrying on the family restaurant business.  You'll laugh a lot and cry some too.