Dictators' Dinners: The Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants - Hardcover

Clark, Victoria; Scott, Melissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908531487 ISBN 13: 9781908531483

Verlag: Gilgamesh Publishing, 2014

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Might the path to true knowledge of any great dictator lead through his stomach?
What did dictators eat? Sometimes simply obscene amounts of the best their nations could offer, but more often their despots' humble origins, or embarrassing medical conditions, or simple lack of interest in or time for food meant their tastes were surprisingly unpretentious - ranging from human flesh, to raw garlic salad, to Quality Street...
Dictators Dinners is an investigation into what some of the world's most notorious 20th century despots have enjoyed most at their dinner table, and with whom. Here we learn of their foibles, their eccentricities and their frequent terror of poisoning - something no number of food tasters was ever able to assuage.

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Victoria Clark formerly Moscow correspondent for The Observer, with long experience also in the Balkans, has previously published in the fields of Byzantine Orthodox Church and the history of Middle East Christianity.

Melissa Scott started a career in broadcasting with the satellite television channel MBC before going on to work on freelance editorial projects in publishing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gilgamesh Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1908531487
• ISBN 13: 9781908531483
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176
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