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Dictators` Dinners: The Bad Taste Guide to Entertaining Tyrants

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. For a selection of 25 former national figureheads across the world, each section includes: an outline of the dictator`s history, a short essay on their particular eating habits, table manners, digestive systems, one or two of their favourite recipes.

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