The Lucretia Borgia Cookbook: Favorite Recipes of Infamous People

When someone has talent, intelligence and creativity, they usually show up in everything he does, whether it's robbing a bank or seasoning his soup. The same good taste that enables one to paint fraudulent masterpieces incongruously carries over into the blending of white sauce. As students of both history and psychology, we should therefore have been prepared for an accidental discovery made during our research into foods of antiquity: notoriously sinister people ate more interesting, and frequently better, food than did most of their counterparts.