How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five  ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro,  NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday

Anthony Bourdain meets  Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the  appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by  the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears.

What was Pol  Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi  Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one  particular cow?

Traveling across four continents, from the  ruins of Iraq to the savannahs of Kenya, Witold Szabłowski tracked down  the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and  massacre of their own citizens—Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, Uganda’s Idi  Amin, Albania’s Enver Hoxha, Cuba’s Fidel Castro, and Cambodia’s Pol  Pot—and listened to their stories over sweet-and-sour soup, goat-meat  pilaf, bottles of rum, and games of gin rummy. Dishy, deliciously  readable, and dead serious, How to Feed a Dictator provides a knife’s-edge view of life under tyranny.