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Apresentação do livro "Como Saciar Um Ditador" de Witold Szablowski
Presentation of the book "How to Satiate a Dictator" by Witold Szablowski
Event by: Âmbito Cultural El Corte Inglés Lisboa
Location: El Corte Inglés, Avenida António Augusto de Aguiar 31, Lisboa
About event
The Cultural Scope of El Corte Inglés and the publisher Zigurate are pleased to invite you to the launch of the book How to Satiate a Dictator, by Witold Szablowski, to be held on December 12th at 6:30 pm, in the Cultural Scope Room of El Corte Inglés from Lisbon. The presentation will be in charge of Alexandra Prado Coelho and chef Ljubomir Stanisic.
Synopsis
Let's imagine a book written in half by Anthony Bourdain and Ryszard Kapuściński. This would be the result: a report about cooks that is also a chilling political book. Because we all have to eat, even dictators.
What did Saddam Hussein have for dinner after having tens of thousands of Kurds gassed? And what did Pol Pot eat while almost two million Cambodians starved to death? Would Fidel Castro be a good fork? How did Idi Amin gain fame as a cannibal and why did Enver Hohxa diet?
Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski went in search of who fed five of the most iconic despots of the second half of the 20th century. He was in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Idi Amin's Uganda, Enver Hohxa's Albania, Fidel Castro's Cuba and Pol Pot's Cambodia, and gathered direct testimony from those who lived with the appetites of feared and merciless men. A compulsively readable book that does not lack, even against a backdrop of horrors, a pinch of humor.
Reporter Alexandra Prado Coelho (awarded this year with the National Gastronomy Award) and the chef Ljubomir Stanisic (who has even cooked for a dictator) will be at the Cultural Center of El Corte de Lisboa to talk about a book that is a full meal in terms of food and from a political point of view.
FREE ENTRY
Synopsis
Let's imagine a book written in half by Anthony Bourdain and Ryszard Kapuściński. This would be the result: a report about cooks that is also a chilling political book. Because we all have to eat, even dictators.
What did Saddam Hussein have for dinner after having tens of thousands of Kurds gassed? And what did Pol Pot eat while almost two million Cambodians starved to death? Would Fidel Castro be a good fork? How did Idi Amin gain fame as a cannibal and why did Enver Hohxa diet?
Polish reporter Witold Szabłowski went in search of who fed five of the most iconic despots of the second half of the 20th century. He was in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Idi Amin's Uganda, Enver Hohxa's Albania, Fidel Castro's Cuba and Pol Pot's Cambodia, and gathered direct testimony from those who lived with the appetites of feared and merciless men. A compulsively readable book that does not lack, even against a backdrop of horrors, a pinch of humor.
Reporter Alexandra Prado Coelho (awarded this year with the National Gastronomy Award) and the chef Ljubomir Stanisic (who has even cooked for a dictator) will be at the Cultural Center of El Corte de Lisboa to talk about a book that is a full meal in terms of food and from a political point of view.
FREE ENTRY