num_pages: 308
description: A sequel to Hotel Bemelmans features a new collection of essays about grand hotel life and describes such adventures as the author's decision to let Parisian criminals baby-sit his daughter, his capture by the Gestapo while he bore red-painted toenails, and his discovery of the only restaurant with toilets in the Amazon jungle.
language: English
title: When You Lunch With the Emperor
titlecomplete: When You Lunch With the Emperor
genres: Literature, Cooking, Childrens, Biography, Memoir, Culinary, Short Stories, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 169
series: Hotel Bemelmans
publisher: The Overlook Press