
BONUS: Dictators’ Chefs
Real Dictators
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Vladimir Putin's Grandfather, a Chef, Cooked for Stalin
Dictators have this instinct that the person who cooks for you should be a person who spreads a good energy. And your personal chef shouldn't be a person Who's mainly complaining, and his mail in a bad mood. I was quite struck. Some of these chefs you actually cooked with, you know, they took you into the kitchen. With all of them. Did you? Amazing. That was the idea of the book. Some kind of unique culinary workshop with them. They're pretty damn dictators themselves."
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