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Dining with leaders, rebels, heroes, and outlaws / / Fiona Ross



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Autore: Ross Fiona <1966-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Dining with leaders, rebels, heroes, and outlaws / / Fiona Ross Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
Disciplina: 641.01/3
Soggetto topico: Gastronomy
Dinners and dining
Heads of state
Heroes
Outlaws
Food habits
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
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
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
Sommario/riassunto: "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."--
Titolo autorizzato: Dining with leaders, rebels, heroes, and outlaws  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4422-5230-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814366303321
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Serie: Dining with Destiny