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Kim Jong Il's Personal Chef Tells All
If you thought the White House pastry chef had some stories to tell, he's got nothing on "Kenji Fujimoto." Fujimoto is the pseudonym of North Korea dictator Kim Jong Il's former personal chef, who escaped to Japan and recently wrote a tell-all book about his experiences. Little is known about the reclusive, engimatic Kim Jong Il, but this book offers some extremely juicy tidbits about his behavior and obsession with exotic, expensive foods.
"To procure various foods and ingredients I made many trips abroad. Each time Kim Jong Il ordered me to go buy this or that, flight arrangements would be made and I would go off. I visited... Czechoslovakia for draft beer, Denmark for pork, Iran for caviar... One day during a meal Kim Jong Il suddenly said, 'Fujimoto, I've heard that in Japan there is a rice cake filled with mugwort. I want you to go and buy it tomorrow!'"
And can you imagine examining every grain of rice for imperfections?
"With respect to rice, before cooking it a waiter and a kitchen staff member would inspect it grain by grain. Chipped and defective grains were extracted; only those with perfect form were presented."
The sad part is that, while he indulges and sends chefs all over the world to serve his whims, millions of North Koreans are starving. Crazy.
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