Eating mud crabs in Kandahar
Subtitle: stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents
By: edited by Matt McAllester
Series: California studies in food and culture -- 31
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780520268678
Subjects: War correspondents; Anecdotes; Survival and emergency rations; Food habits; War; Foreign journalists
Description: A collection of eighteen essays by journalists while on foreign war-time assignment about their experiences with food and the people who shared it.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the name of the third chicken : Kosovo / Matt McAllester; title: Survival rations. Night light : El Salvador and Haiti / Lee Hockstader; title: A diet for dictators : North Korea / Barbara Demick; title: Siege food : Bosnia / Janine di Giovanni; title: Miraculous harvests : China / Isabel Hilton; title: Insistent hosts. How Harry lost his ear : Northern Ireland / Scott Anderson; title: Weighed down by a good meal : Gaza and Israel / Joshua Hammer; title: The price of oranges : Pakistan / Jason Burke; title: Jeweled rice : Iran / Farnaz Fassihi; title: The oversize helmsman of an undersize country : Israel / Matt Rees; title: Food under fire. Same-day cow : Afghanistan / Tim Hetherington; title: Eau de cadavre : Somalia and Rwanda / Sam Kiley; title: Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : Afghanistan / Christina Lamb; title: Munther cannot cook your turkey : Iraq / Rajiv Chandrasekaran; title: Breaking bread. The best man I ever knew : Georgia / Wendell Steavenson; title: Dinner with a jester : Afghanistan / Jon Lee Anderson; title: Sugarland : Haiti / Amy Wilentz; title: My life in pagans : Ossetia / James Meek; title: The house of bread : Bethlehem / Charles M. Sennott.