- Taschenbuch: 332 Seiten
- Verlag: Faber and Faber Ltd.; Auflage: revised edition. (3. Mai 2012)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1780720386
- ISBN-13: 978-1780720388
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 12,8 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 102.100 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"A delightful and delicious tribute to Churchill's heroic appetite for wining, dining and politicking" - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat. "What a wonderful repast Cita Stelzer has served us. History as it was consumed: Roosevelt sipping, Stalin gorging, Churchill quaffing - the best (and not so good) cuts and the great vintages are all on the table. Another bottle, please!" William Shawcross " Cita Stelzer's delightful book... makes for hugely enjoyable reading, but there is a serious thesis lurking not too far behind the stories... The Churchill industry has been so productive in the decades since his death, and such libraries of books have been published, that an original take on his exceptionally well-documented life might seem impossible. However, with this readable "gastrobiography", Stelzer has succeeded brilliantly in producing one." --Sunday Times "A must-read for Churchill connoisseurs, but general readers will find it vastly entertaining too." --Standpoint "Acutely revealing" --Times Literary Supplement "Amusing and unpretentious... [an] entertaining assortment of Churchill anecdotes" --Evening Standard 'Nobody could be better qualified to have written this book than Cita Stelzer.' Andrew Roberts This charming book takes a new approach to the wartime prime minister... Wonderful details bring the leaders alive... The book also brings alive the food of the period... extraordinary --Literary Review "Delightful" - New York Times **** - Daily Express
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A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners for Churchill were about more than good food, excellent champagnes and Havana cigars. "Everything" included the opportunity to use the dinner table as a stage on which to display his brilliant conversational talents, and an intimate setting in which to glean gossip and diplomatic insights, and to argue for the many policies he espoused over a long life. In this riveting, informative and entertaining book Cita Stelzer draws on previously untapped archival material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during and after World War II - including the important conferences at which he used his considerable skills to attempt to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war according to his strategic vision. With fascinating new insights into the food he ate, the champagnes he loved, as well as original menus, seating plans and unpublished photographs, Dinner with Churchill is a sumptuous treat. The next best thing to being there yourself.
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History in a Culinary Context
31. Dezember 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Dinner with Churchill: Policy-making at the Dinner Table
by Cita Stelzer
This is history in a culinary context - history during and after World War 11 from this curious viewpoint. It is a book for those 'Winnie' Churchill devotees who see him as `quite simply, a great man'.
Expect critical evaluation of the menus and wine-lists but expect only love for Winston against a background of war. Churchill, we are told, fought with every weapon in his formidable arsenal, one of which was undoubtedly the dinner party. `It was part of his special genius that he was able to harness even his intestines to the service of his country, and to ally his own alimentary canal to the cause of victory over barbarism.'
This is an entertaining book full of insights into the foods, alcoholic beverages, as well as the original menus, the seating plans, original photographs of the dinner tables, and his trademark cigars. All against the severe wartime food rationing at home.
Author, Cita Stelzer, defends Winston to the last drop of whisky on the question of his alcohol consumption. While agreeing that Churchill consumed large quantities of alcohol by modern standards we are assured that his breakfast whisky was heavily diluted with water used essentially as a mouthwash; that the open bottle of champagne kept at his desk was to ease the burdens of long days at the office; and anyway Winston could hold his liquor. The rest of the historical record is from unreliable reporters or so we are told.
This book would be an excellent gift to delight loyal Churchill admirers or to annoy those on the political left.
Malcolm Cameron
31 December 2011
by Cita Stelzer
This is history in a culinary context - history during and after World War 11 from this curious viewpoint. It is a book for those 'Winnie' Churchill devotees who see him as `quite simply, a great man'.
Expect critical evaluation of the menus and wine-lists but expect only love for Winston against a background of war. Churchill, we are told, fought with every weapon in his formidable arsenal, one of which was undoubtedly the dinner party. `It was part of his special genius that he was able to harness even his intestines to the service of his country, and to ally his own alimentary canal to the cause of victory over barbarism.'
This is an entertaining book full of insights into the foods, alcoholic beverages, as well as the original menus, the seating plans, original photographs of the dinner tables, and his trademark cigars. All against the severe wartime food rationing at home.
Author, Cita Stelzer, defends Winston to the last drop of whisky on the question of his alcohol consumption. While agreeing that Churchill consumed large quantities of alcohol by modern standards we are assured that his breakfast whisky was heavily diluted with water used essentially as a mouthwash; that the open bottle of champagne kept at his desk was to ease the burdens of long days at the office; and anyway Winston could hold his liquor. The rest of the historical record is from unreliable reporters or so we are told.
This book would be an excellent gift to delight loyal Churchill admirers or to annoy those on the political left.
Malcolm Cameron
31 December 2011
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