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The course of history : ten meals that changed the world / Struan Stevenson ; recipes by Tony Singh, MBE.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Arcade Publishing, 2019Edition: First North American editionDescription: xi, 269 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781948924245
  • 1948924242
Other title:
  • Ten meals that changed the world
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Bonnie Prince Charlie on the eve of Culloden -- Sowing the seeds of the American Revolution -- How Washington, DC, became America's capital -- Forging a hundred years of peace at the Congress of Vienna -- Archduke Franz Ferdinand's dinner in Sarajevo -- How petroleum politics was born over a Scottish banquet -- Austrian Anschluss -- Churchill's birthday banquet in Tehran -- Nixon in China -- The Egypt-Israel peace treaty dinner.
Summary: "Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied--and perhaps influenced--by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating book explores ten of those pivotal meals, presenting the contexts, key participants, table talk, and outcomes of each. It offers unique insight into the minds and appetites of some of history's most famous and notorious characters, including Bonnie Prince Charlie, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Richard Nixon. Includes recipes."-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 904.7 S848 Available 33111008937167
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 904.7 S848 Available 33111009530847
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

An entertaining seat at the table of ten power meals that shaped history--including the menus and recreated recipes!

Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied--and perhaps influenced--by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating book explores ten of those pivotal meals, presenting the contexts, key participants, table talk, and outcomes of each. It offers unique insight into the minds and appetites of some of history's most famous and notorious characters, including Bonnie Prince Charlie, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Richard Nixon.

Feasting on leg of lamb, Bonnie Prince Charlie doomed the Jacobite Army at Culloden. A uniquely American menu served with French wine lubricated the conversation between rivals Jefferson and Hamilton that led to the founding of the US financial system and the location of the nation's capital in Washington. After schweinwürst and sauerkraut with Adolf Hitler at his Berghof residence, Austrian chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg agreed to the complete integration of Austria into the Third Reich. Celebrity chef Tony Singh has researched the menus and recipes for all ten dinners down to the last detail and recreates them here. The book contains fifty-five recipes from soup to desert and lists the spirits as well.

Originally published in the United Kingdom by Birlinn Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-269).

"Some of the most consequential decisions in history were decided at the dinner table, accompanied--and perhaps influenced--by copious amounts of food and drink. This fascinating book explores ten of those pivotal meals, presenting the contexts, key participants, table talk, and outcomes of each. It offers unique insight into the minds and appetites of some of history's most famous and notorious characters, including Bonnie Prince Charlie, George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Richard Nixon. Includes recipes."-- Provided by publisher.

Bonnie Prince Charlie on the eve of Culloden -- Sowing the seeds of the American Revolution -- How Washington, DC, became America's capital -- Forging a hundred years of peace at the Congress of Vienna -- Archduke Franz Ferdinand's dinner in Sarajevo -- How petroleum politics was born over a Scottish banquet -- Austrian Anschluss -- Churchill's birthday banquet in Tehran -- Nixon in China -- The Egypt-Israel peace treaty dinner.

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