Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Dining with destiny |
Contents |
Dining With Leaders, Rebels, Heroes, And Outlaws ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 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 Détente; Anti-Communist Eating with Ronnie and Nancy; Dining in Camelot: JFK and Jackie; Chapter 2: Dining with the Rebels |
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Eating a Way out of Apartheid: Nelson MandelaKarl 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 |
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The Many Appetites of Albert EinsteinPrawns 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 Perón; Eating Bitterness with Chairman Mao; Bibliography; 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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
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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COOKING -- General.
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Dinners and dining
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Food habits
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Gastronomy
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Heads of state
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Heroes
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Outlaws
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Genre/Form |
Humor
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Trivia and miscellanea
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2016019725 |
ISBN |
9781442252301 |
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1442252308 |
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