Description
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.
About the Author
Fiona Ross leads a double-existence: in her 'normal' life as the exhausted English Teacher at an all-girls school, Fiona keeps company with screaming debutants and a lot of short people under the age of twelve, while practicing the dark arts of crowd control. Meanwhile, her double works as a freelance food writer and a gastro-detective whose headquarters are the Bodleian Library; 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.
Reviews
British gastrodetective Ross pairs a wide range of politicians, dictators, revolutionaries, heroes, and geniuses with their cuisine preferences, providing both recipes and descriptions of the dishes. She names Israeli leader Golda Meir's heartwarming gruel, President Lyndon B. Johnson's beef ribs, Russian head Boris Yeltsin's favorite fish soup, Margaret Thatcher's conservative 'Iron Lady Ginger Cake,' and JFK's beloved fish chowder, among others. Her 'Rebel' and 'Outlaws' sections are full of historic detail and tongue-in-cheek relish, and they possess a real comic edge. Ross samples Nelson Mandela's biryani of spicy lamb, Lenin's 'Comrade's Cabbage and Dumpling Soup,' Malcolm X's savory pecan pie, and Osama Bin Laden's toxic Swedish delicacy of smoked sausage with potatoes and mustard. Her heroes include Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, and she especially enjoys Sigmund Freud's Viennese rindfleisch goulash and Gandhi's 'Seaman's Roti.' Most of the civilization's famous and infamous appear in Ross's slyly humorous food dossier, which is concocted to be taken seriously while producing a belly laugh or two. * Publishers Weekly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781442252295
Author Fiona Ross
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 21mm
About the Author
Fiona Ross leads a double-existence: in her 'normal' life as the exhausted English Teacher at an all-girls school, Fiona keeps company with screaming debutants and a lot of short people under the age of twelve, while practicing the dark arts of crowd control. Meanwhile, her double works as a freelance food writer and a gastro-detective whose headquarters are the Bodleian Library; 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.
Reviews
British gastrodetective Ross pairs a wide range of politicians, dictators, revolutionaries, heroes, and geniuses with their cuisine preferences, providing both recipes and descriptions of the dishes. She names Israeli leader Golda Meir's heartwarming gruel, President Lyndon B. Johnson's beef ribs, Russian head Boris Yeltsin's favorite fish soup, Margaret Thatcher's conservative 'Iron Lady Ginger Cake,' and JFK's beloved fish chowder, among others. Her 'Rebel' and 'Outlaws' sections are full of historic detail and tongue-in-cheek relish, and they possess a real comic edge. Ross samples Nelson Mandela's biryani of spicy lamb, Lenin's 'Comrade's Cabbage and Dumpling Soup,' Malcolm X's savory pecan pie, and Osama Bin Laden's toxic Swedish delicacy of smoked sausage with potatoes and mustard. Her heroes include Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein, and she especially enjoys Sigmund Freud's Viennese rindfleisch goulash and Gandhi's 'Seaman's Roti.' Most of the civilization's famous and infamous appear in Ross's slyly humorous food dossier, which is concocted to be taken seriously while producing a belly laugh or two. * Publishers Weekly *
Book Information
ISBN 9781442252295
Author Fiona Ross
Format Hardback
Page Count 220
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 454g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 160mm * 21mm
