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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 historys 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 nations 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.
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STRUAN STEVENSON BiographyA renowned political activist and campaigner of many years' standing, Struan represented Scotland in the European Parliament from 1999 until 2014. Born in 1948, the son of an Ayrshire farmer in South West Scotland, Struan entered local politics at the age of 22, winning election to his local council. He served as a councillor for 22 years, rising to the position of Council Leader. He fought three separate Westminster elections as a candidate for the Conservative Party before finally being elected as a Euro MP in 1999. He served three terms as a Member of the European Parliament before retiring in 2014.Struan is a well-known public speaker, debater, broadcaster and regular contributor to the press. He is the author of 5 books 'CRYING FOREVER - A Nuclear Diary' (2006) and 'STALIN'S LEGACY - The Soviet War on Nature' (2012) . A third book 'SO MUCH WIND - The Myth of Green Energy' was published in 2013 and a fourth book 'SELF-SACRIFICE - Life with the Iranian Mojahedin' was published in May 2015. Struan's fifth book 'THE COURSE OF HISTORY - Ten Meals That Changed the World' was published in the UK by Birlinn Ltd in 2017 and in the US by Arcade in 2019. An accomplished speaker, Struan has undertaken lecture tours and addressed audiences around the world.His broad interests embrace international and humanitarian affairs. Struan was President of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with Iraq from 2009-2014 and President of the Friends of Free Iran Intergroup from 2002-2014, during which time he travelled regularly to Iraq, Kurdistan and the Middle East.He is also an expert on Central Asia. In 2010 he was appointed as 'Roving Ambassador' or 'Personal Representative of the Chairman in Office (Kazakhstan) ' of the Organisation for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and tasked with the job of drawing up a 250 page report on the environmental problems facing the five Central Asian Republics. This necessitated extensive travel through Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Since 1999, he has campaigned widely to attract aid for the victims of the Soviet nuclear testing programme in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate, an Honorary Professorship and the Freedom of the City of Semipalatinsk for his work. In 2007 he was invested into the order of 'Shapagat' (charity) by the President of Kazakhstan. In 2009 Struan visited Znamenka, one of the villages worst affected by radiation, to unveil a plaque re-naming the village main street as 'Struan Stevenson Street'. It was formerly called 'Lenin Street'!In 2004 he won a $50,000 prize for his entry in an International Essay Competition (sponsored by the US-based John Templeton Foundation) for a feature about the suffering of the people of Semipalatinsk. He donated the entire $50,000 prize to Mercy Corps Scotland to assist wi
