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

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (214 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series California studies in food and culture ; [31]
California studies in food and culture ; 31.
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.
Summary 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 of North Korea describes Kim's exacting standards for gourmet fare, which he gorges himself on while his country starves. A journalist becomes part of the inner circle of an IRA cell thanks to his drinking buddies. And a young, inexperienced female journalist shares mud crab in a foxhole with an eq.
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Subject Survival and emergency rations -- Anecdotes.
Survival and emergency rations.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Subject Food habits -- Anecdotes.
Food habits.
War correspondents -- Anecdotes.
War correspondents.
Foreign correspondents -- Anecdotes.
Foreign correspondents.
War and society -- Anecdotes.
War and society.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Anecdotes.
Added Author McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
Other Form: Print version: Eating mud crabs in Kandahar. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520268678 (DLC) 2011017737 (OCoLC)712114149
ISBN 9780520949683 (electronic book)
0520949684 (electronic book)
9780520268678
0520268679
Standard No. 9786613278210