How many women sculptors can you name? This book will help you to understand the work and lives of dozens of women sculptors - significant artists from the past as well as those working in the exciting world of sculpture today. Camille Claudel Barbara Hepworth Elisabeth Frink Niki de Saint Phalle Louise Bourgeois Ruth Asawa Rachel Whiteread Malvina Hoffman Maggi Hambling Cornelia Parker Senga Ningudi Sophie Ryder and many more... With an overview of women making sculpture from the 1800s to today, we explore the work of fifty extraordinary women artists who have forged a name for themselves in a male arena, broken rules, pushed boundaries and inspired us with their visionary creations.

Three generations of Patricia Volk’s family have been in the restaurant business. Her hallway was the colour of ball-park mustard, the living room was cocoa and the floor was like Genoa salami. At Morgen’s, the famous restaurant in the garment district which her grandfather started and which her father ran, she was the princess. Waiters winked at her and twirled her napkin up high before draping it on her lap and when she wanted a hamburger, her grandfather would grind the steak himself. In Stuffed, Patricia Volk marvellously evokes everyday life in a New York Jewish family and what it was like to grow up around an old-fashioned family-run restaurant.

As much about families as it is about food, here are stories of eccentric uncles, gorgeous aunts and millionaire grandfathers all of who lived a couple of blocks from each other. Of ancestors who were the first to bring pastrami to the New World, and stir scallions into cream cheese. Of Uncle Al, who slept with Aunt Lil for eleven years and then didn’t want to marry her because she wasn’t a virgin and Aunt Ruthie, who gave the burglar, breaking into her apartment, a meal and a lecture. Wildly entertaining, this is a wonderful portrait of a fabulous family and a charming recreation of a lost era.

‘We were a restaurant family, four generations in a six-block radius. When you opened our fridge, food fell on your feet.’

‘Her graceful, finely wrought prose endows them with a universality that can stand the comparison of Philip Roth … Buy it now and spend some of the most pleasurable hours of your life. A small masterpiece’ —Guardian

‘Warm-hearted … vivid characters … a funny and touching book with a thought-provoking subtext’ —Economist

‘Stuffed takes you into a world much richer and more vibrantly textured than the noisy, greasy, dull confines of a professional kitchen … taut, sharp, witty’ —New York Times

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 Austrian-Jewish family is as American as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark, and each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was memorialized by 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. One grandmother was a 300-pound calendar girl. The last of Grandfather Herman Morgen's fourteen restaurants was a famous garment-center hangout. For three generations, just about every Volk and Morgen 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.