Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents

Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents / edited by Matt McAllester.

These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il...

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Other Authors: McAllester, Matthew, 1969- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 31.
Subjects:
Survival and emergency rations > Anecdotes.
Food habits > Anecdotes.
War correspondents > Anecdotes.
Foreign correspondents > Anecdotes.
War and society > Anecdotes.
COOKING > Essays.
HISTORY > Social History.
Food habits
Foreign correspondents
Survival and emergency rations
War and society
War correspondents
Anecdotes
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the name of the third chicken : Kosovo / Matt McAllester
  • Survival rations. Night light : El Salvador and Haiti / Lee Hockstader
  • A diet for dictators : North Korea / Barbara Demick
  • Siege food : Bosnia / Janine di Giovanni
  • Miraculous harvests : China / Isabel Hilton
  • Insistent hosts. How Harry lost his ear : Northern Ireland / Scott Anderson
  • Weighed down by a good meal : Gaza and Israel / Joshua Hammer
  • The price of oranges : Pakistan / Jason Burke
  • Jeweled rice : Iran / Farnaz Fassihi
  • The oversize helmsman of an undersize country : Israel / Matt Rees
  • Food under fire. Same-day cow : Afghanistan / Tim Hetherington
  • Eau de cadavre : Somalia and Rwanda / Sam Kiley
  • Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : Afghanistan / Christina Lamb
  • Munther cannot cook your turkey : Iraq / Rajiv Chandrasekaran
  • Breaking bread. The best man I ever knew : Georgia / Wendell Steavenson
  • Dinner with a jester : Afghanistan / Jon Lee Anderson
  • Sugarland : Haiti / Amy Wilentz
  • My life in pagans : Ossetia / James Meek
  • The house of bread : Bethlehem / Charles M. Sennott.

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