How to Feed a Dictator

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Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr Szablowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it -- Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny This book tells all that we know about the power of good suppers, whoever they are fed to -- Rose Prince * Spectator * Riveting, and utterly convinces in its thesis that "20th-century history as seen from the kitchen" is worth our attention -- Iona McLaren * Sunday Telegraph * How To Feed A Dictator offers a beguiling mix of the dark and the comic, combining fancy cuisine with torture and genocide. Its tone is reminiscent of Armando Iannucci's recent movie The Death Of Stalin, in which the absurd and the monstrous, the funny and the horrifying are so entwined as to be indivisible -- Craig Brown * Daily Mail * A fascinating collection of essays - part oral history, part reportage - by Polish journalist Witold Szablowski... For some of these chefs, it was hard to see their employers as anything but ordinary human beings, however flawed, until it was too late. Maybe you can't see monstrosity in its full monstrousness when you're making breakfast for it every day -- Jennifer Reese * Washington Post *