Thursday, December 11, 2014

Peculiar food habits of dictators like Hitler, Mussolini and others


Joseph Stalin - dinner times in the Russian communist dictator's company was of drinking games, food fights and singing and dancing – but, with a difference. Such parties would go on for up to six hours during which, he would seek opportunities to exert his control over the people, humiliate them and expose their weaknesses. The singing and dancing routine was not an expression of joy but a compulsory act that would be enforced by the fearsome leader.
His Georgina roots included food such as walnuts, garlic, plums and pomegranates and one of his starters was satsivi, a type of chicken soup.
Adolf Hitler – he had more compassion for animals than he did for people and he was not a devoted vegetarian because, on several occasions, he ate dishes such as pigeon and liver.
He had a fear of being poisoned, therefor he had 15 food-tasters to ensure his meals were safe for him to eat. The dish would be taken to his table only after a period of 45 minutes had elapsed without any taster dropping dead. His meals consisted of asparagus in season, with Hollandaise sauce, vegetable broths with little semolina dumplings, roasted red peppers, rice, salads and vegetable stews.
Benito Mussolini – in his opinion, French cooking was worthless and Italian food was the best in the world. He feasted not only on pasta and pizza but, one of his favorite dishes was a less appetizing salad of roughly chopped raw garlic, dressed with oil and lemon.
Saddam Hussein – he loved fish. He would wake up his kitchen staff at odd hours like five or six in the morning to grill some fish he'd just caught.
Muammar Gaddafi – he loved camel milk. One of his favorite meals was a dish from his home country - camel meat with couscous. Of course, he also had a penchant for Italian food in spite of banishing Italians from Libya. Kim Jong-Il – he was particular about his food. There was a small army of women who were employed to ensure that every grain of rice meant for his plate was uniform in size, shape and color. The rice would, then, have to be cooked over a fire using only trees cut from a mountain peak near the Chinese border.
He loved sushi and it had once been reported that he 'enjoyed raw fish so fresh that he could start eating it when its "mouth was still gasping and its tail still thrashing.' Moreover, he used to have live lobsters airlifted to his train as it crossed Siberia on its way to Moscow. And - he had food grown especially for him while the North Koreans starved.

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