How to Feed a Dictator

Name: How to Feed a Dictator
Brand: Penguin Books
SKU: 9780143129752-PRUSDTR-US
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Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Witold Szablowski (Author) ... more

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English • Age Adult - Adult

288 pages • 5.07 x 7.75 x 0.72 in

Approx. weight: 0.48 lb

Publication date: 28 Apr,2020

Barcode: 9780143129752 • Penguin Books

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Biography and memoirs

Biography: historical political and military
Political leaders and leadership
Political structures: totalitarianism and dictatorship
Cookery / food and drink / food writing
Social and cultural history

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By: Witold Szablowski

“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday

Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin

What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow?

Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat pilaf, bottles of rum, and games of gin rummy. Dishy, deliciously readable, and dead serious, How to Feed a Dictator provides a knife’s-edge view of life under tyranny.