Fiona Ross

Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes, and Outlaws (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes and Outlaws is a marvelously funny journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of the great, the good, and the not-so-good. Based on the findings of the British gastro-detective Fiona Ross, the Dining with Destiny series establishes a new genre: the food biography, with scandals, recipes, and their stories, allowing you to taste the culinary secret lives of presidents and prime ministers; dictators and revolutionaries; heroes and geniuses - and serve them up at your own dinner table. From Winston Churchill to Malcolm X, Golda Meir to Albert Einstein, and more, each of these figures took part in landmark historical and cultural events that have shaped and defined our way of life - but they also had to eat. Now it is time to look at their plates to discover what makes them a revolutionary, a hero, a rogue! Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes and Outlaws lets you taste what's on Darwin's fork.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216321743
• Artikelnr.: 74397180

Autorenporträt

Fiona Ross, like most of us, leads a double existence: in her 'normal' life as a writer of fiction in Bishop's Stortford, U.K., Fiona keeps company with two bossy chickens and her dog, Parsnip. She spends a lot of time fishing chickens out of her bathtub and Parsnip out of the chicken run. In between, she stares into space a lot looking for inspiration for her stories. Meanwhile, her glamorous and exciting double works as a gastro-detective whose headquarters are the famous Bodleian Library in Oxford; she spends her time there pondering which sandwich filling she would prefer for lunch when she is not hot on the trail of a famous gastronome. The Dining with Destiny series is the result of just such weighty thoughts - oh, and a short-term memory problem which means that Fiona can never recall anything important like the date of a war or how to hoover, but can always be counted upon to remember how much jam Marx liked on his tarts. Time will tell which is the more important.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1: Dining with the Leaders: Apparatchiks and their appetites will appeal to all those readers with a transcontinental interest in behind-the-napkin politics. Candidates include: Golda Meir
Lyndon B Johnson
Boris Yeltsin
'Peanuts' Carter
Margaret Thatcher
Richard Nixon
Churchill
Bill Clinton
Gorbachev
Ronnie Reagan
and JFK and Jackie. 2: Dining with the Rebels: From the shores of Cape Town to the menu at Charlestown Penitentiary, we follow the crumb trail of the world's leading revolutionaries. Ordering a Molotov are: Mandela
Marx
Castro
Ché
Malcolm X
Lenin
Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat. 3: Dining with the Heroes: serving up supper with heroes, geniuses and explorers. On a pedestal are: Lawrence of Arabia
Freud
Scott of the Antarctic
Gandhi
Martin Luther King
Charles Darwin
Einstein
and Men on the Moon. 4: Dining with the Outlaws: If you are what you eat, could we all be dictators too? This accessible volume investigates the unusual appetites of these men with something to hide. The roll-call: Hitler
Tito
Pinochet
Mao
Mussolini
Saddam
Osama bin Laden
Stalin
and Peròn.