The creator of the Madeline books offers a look behind-the-scenes kitchen life at the Ritz in 1920s and 1930s New York, chronicling the zany antics and characters at the ...

Recountings of behind-the-scenes kitchen life in the grand hotels of New York City during the 1920s and 1930s.

An autobiographical account of Bemelman's three years working as a waiter in a hotel in New York City.