Look behind the kitchen doors of famous Grand Hotels!

 Peeking Behind the Wallpaper.

Funny anecdotes and some serious glimpses what goes on in large hotel kitchens and dining rooms.  Laugh about room service disasters and over eager catering directors. The book includes menu facsimiles and authentic recipes for dishes seldom served today. The book pays homage to the myriad colleagues I worked with and learned from.

Sage advise (not recipes with sage). What is the best cut for making steak tartar?

How do you make scrambled eggs nice and fluffy for 1,200 customers?

How to make Bearnaise Sauce for 1,600?

What did the Rojas Pinilla, the President of Colombia order the night he was overthrown?

Not an expose yet candied observations from 50 years working in kitchens and musing about the industry by looking behind the wallpaper as Food and Beverage Director at The Plaza when it was still La Grande Dame of New York hotels.

Available already on Flash Drive in Pdf. Plug into any USB port and read the whole book for only $ 15.00.  Go to shop page, order and pay and  conveniently with PayPal.

See cover page and table of contents on the next pages!

Copyright 2011 Arno Schmidt,