| Description |
xii, 208 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Dining with destiny
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-202) and index. |
| Summary |
"This fun and interesting romp through the preferred meals and snacks of leaders, rulers, and outlaws throughout history not only entertains, but also offers a fresh perspective on an often-forgotten aspect of the lives of the celebrated, the revered, the feared, and the failed."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: chapter 1 Dining with the Leaders -- Golda Meir and Her Kitchen Cabinet -- High on the Hog with Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson -- Hunting Boris Yeltsin -- It Wasn't All About the Nuts: Jimmy Carter -- Midnight Snacks with Maggie Thatcher -- Taking Tea with "Tricky Dick" Nixon -- Tummy Time with Winston Churchill -- French Fries Forever: Bill Clinton -- Mikhail Gorbachev Likes It Detente -- Anti-Communist Eating with Ronnie and Nancy -- Dining in Camelot: JFK and Jackie -- chapter 2 Dining with the Rebels -- Eating a Way out of Apartheid: Nelson Mandela -- Karl Marx Liked Picnics -- London's Calling Vladimir Lenin -- The Manly Meals of Fidel Castro -- Mostly Monkeys: Che Guevara -- The Porky Predicament of Malcolm X -- Osama bin Laden and the Swedish Secret Weapon -- It's Never Too Late for Breakfast: Yasser Arafat -- chapter 3 Dining with the Heroes -- The Eating Adventures of Lawrence of Arabia -- Freudian Suppers with Sigmund Freud -- A Last Birthday with Scott of the Antarctic -- Finding Vegetarian London: Mahatma Gandhi -- The Ultimate Wife Test: Martin Luther King Jr. -- Evolutionary Eating with Charles Darwin -- The Many Appetites of Albert Einstein -- Prawns in Space: Men on the Moon -- chapter 4 Dining with the Outlaws -- Herr Hitler Made the Coffee: Serving Up Adolf and Eva -- The Hungry Hungarian: Marshal Tito -- Tea and Cakes with Augusto Pinochet -- Saddam Hussein and the Carp Connection -- Benito Mussolini Bans Pasta -- Dinner with Stalin -- Puchero for the Shirtless Ones: Juan and Evita Peron -- Eating Bitterness with Chairman Mao. |
| Subject |
Gastronomy -- Humor.
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Dinners and dining -- Miscellanea.
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Heads of state -- Miscellanea.
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Heroes -- Miscellanea.
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Outlaws -- Miscellanea.
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Food habits -- Miscellanea.
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Dinners and dining. (OCoLC)fst00893952
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Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
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Gastronomy. (OCoLC)fst00938901
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Heads of state. (OCoLC)fst00952677
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Heroes. (OCoLC)fst00955558
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Outlaws. (OCoLC)fst01049233
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| Genre/Form |
Humor. (OCoLC)fst01423696
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Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ross, Fiona, 1966- Dining with leaders, rebels, heroes, and outlaws. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 9781442252301 (DLC) 2016019725 |
| ISBN |
9781442252295 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1442252294 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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