Everyone has to eat — including dictators. But who fed them? Witold Szablowski tracked down the chefs of some of the most famous dictators in history to get an inside look at their regimes — and their plates — in “How to Feed a Dictator.”
I think you can say that the chefs, usually they have amazing perspective. Like, they are very close, but at the same time, they are the guys who could possibly poison the dictator. So it's a tricky position. You are a mother and an enemy at the same time. So Saddam was not good for Iraqi people and for the world, but he had this instinct to treat his personnel well ... And the chef is mentioning the expensive gifts he has got from Saddam. Gold watches, and he had new clothes.
This story was edited for radio by Ian Stewart and Kitty Eisele, and adapted for the Web by Petra Mayer.
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