Inside Stalin's Kitchen: Secrets from His Personal Chef.

The State Archive of the Russian Federation has released the memoirs of Joseph Stalin's personal chef, Alexander Eg Natashavili. In these memoirs, the famous Soviet cook talks about the food Stalin ate and shares some recipes.

Eg Natashavili writes that Stalin ate simple food for breakfast like coffee and omelets. For lunch, Stalin liked to eat soup, roasted quail, and pineapple.

For dinner, Stalin would start with a glass of wine and then have beans and fresh fruit. Eg Natashavili wrote that Stalin would often drink a lot of alcohol, so they would always have a lot of wine on hand.

The chef also shared the secret of the famous "Doctor's sausage." He said that the first batch was made in 1937 and included ground-up Soviet scientists, mostly doctors.

Eg Natashavili says this was Stalin's way of trying to learn more. Later, when they ran out of doctors, they started using people with lower academic degrees until 1945, when they stopped using people in the sausage altogether.