MixedThe Wall Street Journal... lively ... [Szablowski] doesn’t bother with recipes, but with the help of locals he meets, he does provide historical context for the worlds in which these tyrants operated and makes sure we remember how evil they were, even as we read about their fondness for grilled cheese with honey or refusal to eat dried elephant meat ... He also warns us—though only at the end of the book, after we’ve ingested what his chefs have served—that he wasn’t able to verify much of what he has been told ... What do we learn from these chefs, by way of Mr. Szabłowski, about the dictators they served? Probably not much we didn’t already suspect.
