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How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Szablowski, Witold
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia

Paperback

Presidents & Heads of StateFood WritingGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0143129759
ISBN13: 9780143129752
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: Apr 28 2020
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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

Now a documentary film! World premiere: 2026 Tribeca Film Festival

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 Szablowski 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.

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