Introduction / Andrew Roberts

The importance of dinners

Meeting off Newfoundland August 1941

Christmas in the White House December 1941

January 1942

Dinners in Moscow August 1942

Adana January 1943

Teheran November 1943

Yalta February 1945

Meeting at Potsdam July 1945

From Fulton to Bermuda: the limits of dinner-table diplomacy

Food

Champagne, whisky and brandy

Cigars

Rationing

Dinners

Endnotes.