Check this out, Julia Child worked for the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA, during WWII.
Of course, Julia Child immediately brings to mind French cooking, but my favorite book by her and one of the only cookbooks I regularly refer to is The Way to Cook. It tells you how to poach and how to debone, as well as giving classic and delicious recipes.
If you read deep into the documents, you will see that she was asked to participate in the "removal" of a particularly obnoxious German in France, Wolfgang Otto Ludwig Friedrich. She was asked to help create poisined dishes that would lead to his demise. However, in classic Julia style, she drew the line at using food as a weapon.
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