{"product_id":"dictators-dinners-book-victoria-clark-9781908531483","title":"Dictators' Dinners","description":"\u003cp\u003ea cookbook like no other--\u003ci\u003eMail Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictoria Clark and Melissa Scott set out to bite off a very specific bit of history with their new book--\u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party Download\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Stalin's all-night Georgian banquets to Hitler's obsessive vegetarianism, a new book spills the beans on their dinner tables--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe worst despots of the 20th century have been subjected to culinary scrutiny in new book\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eDictators' Dinners\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003e--and it's fascinating stuff.--\u003ci\u003eThe Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMight the path to true knowledge of any great dictator lead through his stomach?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDictators' Dinners\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eis an investigation into what some of the world's most notorious twentieth-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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria Clark\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003eformerly Moscow correspondent for the\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, with long experience also in the Balkans, has previously published in the fields of Byzantine Orthodox Church and the history of Middle East Christianity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelissa Scott\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003estarted a career in broadcasting with the satellite television channel MBC before going on to work on freelance projects in publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49547724226833,"sku":"GOR006389098","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50191742337297,"sku":"CIN1908531487G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50835113476369,"sku":"GOR010056213","price":7.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51084372443409,"sku":"GOR009199333","price":11.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1908531487.jpg?v=1751314681","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/dictators-dinners-book-victoria-clark-9781908531483","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}