Hotel Bemelmans by Ludwig Bemelmans
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- ISBN 10 1585675016
- ISBN 13 9781585675012
- Linked ISBNs
- 9781585677061 Paperback (United States) 10/25/2005
- Published Oct 07 2004
- Format Hardcover
- Language English
- Publisher Overlook Press
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Ludwig Bemelmans was the original bad boy of the New York hotel/restaurant subculture, wrote Anthony Bourdain. Bemelmans also had a reporter's eye for sensory detail and a sharp wit, and his humorous autobiographical tales of behind-the-scenes kitchen life at the Ritz in the 1920s and '30s New York never fail to amuse and engage.
Hotel Bemelmans brilliantly evokes the kitchens, back passages, dining rooms, and banquet halls of Bemelman's years at the Hotel Splendide--a thinly disguised stand-in for the Ritz. It's a strange, fabulous, and sometimes terrible universe populated by rogues, con men, geniuses, craftsmen, lunatics, gypsies, tramps, and thieves...and it's all here in bitingly funny detail. Twenty-four of the tales are vintage Bemelmans, two have never before been published, and the lot is accompanied by seventy-three of Bemelman's original, charming drawings.
