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

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 savannas of Kenya. Witold Szablowski tracked down the personal chefs of five dictators known for the oppression and massacre of their own citizens-Uganda's Idi Amin, Cuba's Fidel Castro, Albania's Enver Hoxha, Iraq's Saddam Hussein, 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. Hour to Feed a Dictator provides a knife's-edge view of life under tyranny.