Someone's in the Kitchen with Stalin

Vladimir Lenin was famously disinterested in food and eating.  For Lenin, food was a necessary inconvenience.  Cuisine was a bourgeois extravagance.  His successor Stalin, however, brought with him a Georgian flair for dining that was in sharp contrast with the Spartan fare of the early USSR.  As Nikita Khruschev noted, "I don’t think there has ever been a leader of comparable responsibilities who wasted more time than Stalin did just sitting around the dinner table eating and drinking."