On May 8, 1945, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced the end of the Second World War. He concluded his radio address with “Nothing should prevent us from celebrating Victory Day in Europe today and tomorrow!” But before Churchill responded to his own call to celebrate the victory, he turned to his cook, Georgina Landemare, and said “Without you I would not have survived the war.” This was meant in deadly earnest, for eating well was essential to the stability and well-being of the statesman. It was Churchill’s belief that one should offer the body something good, so that the soul may desire to dwell in it. ... The prime minister often invited people to dinner parties at his home. He used dining as an art to display his conversational talents and to engage in political debate, to confer with friends and to win over rivals. During the WWII, he used dining to exert his conversational skills to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war. Churchill used dining and the dinner table to do what could not always be done at the conference table.