num_pages: 288
description: Anthony Bourdain meets Kapuciski in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth centurys most infamous dictators by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears.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 Szabowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizensIraqs Saddam Hussein Ugandas Idi Amin Albanias Enver Hoxha Cubas Fidel Castro and Cambodias Pol Potand 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 knifes-edge view of life under tyranny.
language: English
title: How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks
publisher: Penguin Books