How to feed the dictator. Shablovsky V.

Food and politics are inextricably linked. The cooks of the rulers remain in the shade, but perhaps they, like no one else, know and understand those for whom they cook. After all, in order to please the client, you need not only to study his tastes and habits well, but also to be able to quickly respond to the slightest changes in the situation or mood. Especially if your life depends on this.

Polish journalist Vitold Shablovsky asks the question: what happened on plates of dictators of the second half of the twentieth century, when they made their terrible decisions? What did Saddam Hussein dine when he gave the order to poison tens of thousands of Kurds with gas? What did Pol Pot at when almost two million khmers were dying of hunger? What did Fidel Castro order, putting the world on the line of nuclear war? Combining certificates of personal cooks with panoramic optics, Shablovsky creates live portraits of famous tyrants, sometimes finding the most unexpected qualities in them.