A strange new book – part history, part cookbook – is being released and it’s subject matter is quite interesting – the favorite foods and recipe of almost every dictator in history – from Hitler to Stalin – they’re all in the book!
In an article from The Independent called “What the world’s worst dictators liked to eat more than anything else” [1] they write:
BYPASS THE CENSORS
Sign up to get unfiltered news delivered straight to your inbox.
You can unsubscribe any time. By subscribing you agree to our Terms of Use
A new book, part history and part cookbook, details the favourite dishes of some of the 20th century’s most notorious autocrats.
Here’s what we learned from Dictators’ Dinners, by Victoria Clark and Melissa Scott.
Adolf Hitler
Despite being history’s most well-known genocidal vegetarian, the Nazi leader’s favourite dish was actually petits poussins à la Hambourg, or baby pigeons stuffed with tongue, liver and pistachio nuts.
Benito Mussolini
The fascist Il Duce disliked pasta and said mashed potato gave him headaches, but loved rough-chopped raw garlic with oil and lemon.
Joseph Stalin
The Soviet leader held six-hour banquets where copious amounts of semi-sweet Khvanchkara wine were consumed, leaving guests puking and incontinent. His favourite dish however was chicken with walnuts and spices.
Kim Jong-il
North Korea’s late dear leader had extremely expensive tastes, importing Iranian caviar, Thai mangoes and Japanese rice cakes with mugwort. He also employed an army of women to ensure rice grains were the same size, and liked fish so raw it was still gasping and thrashing when he started eating.
Muammar Gaddafi
Gaddafi liked Italian pastries and pasta, but reserved a special place in his heart for camel meat, couscous and prunes, a traditional Libyan dish.
Saddam Hussein
Iraq’s dictator demanded only the best farm-fresh beef and lamb trimmed of fat, and only ate olives from the Golan Heights. He also had a weakness for Quality Street and Old Parr whisky.
Idi Amin
The Ugandan leader ate 40 oranges a day but while living in exile in Saudi Arabia dined on pizza and KFC. He also had a habit of serving bee larvae and fried grasshoppers at state banquets to annoy visiting dignitaries.
Hastings Banda
Malawi’s long-time leader ate dried mopane worms (the caterpillar of the emperor moth) as a snack like crisps.
SOURCE
Latest posts by Royce Christyn (see all)
- Government Op Who Predicted Super Bowl Score Warns Of Nuclear War - February 18, 2017
- Video: Why Voting Doesn’t Change Anything & Democracy Is A Lie - May 7, 2016
- Did Bible Verse Predict String of Recent Quakes, Volcano, & Foam? - April 17, 2016