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- ISBN
- 9780520268678
- Book Title
- Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar : Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Cooking, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science
- Topic
- Regional & Ethnic / General, Sociology / General, Journalism, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), United States / General
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 14.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 232 Pages
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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 equally young Hamid Karzai. Along with tales of deprivation and repression are stories of generosity and pleasure, sometimes overlapping. This memorable collection, introduced and edited by Matt McAllester, is seasoned by tragedy and violence, spiced with humor and good will, and fortified, in McAllester's words, with "a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520268679
ISBN-13
9780520268678
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109245118
Product Key Features
Book Title
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar : Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Regional & Ethnic / General, Sociology / General, Journalism, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), United States / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Cooking, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
232 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
31
Lc Classification Number
Tx357.E286 2011
Reviews
_Offers mindful stories about food and extreme eating from journalists in conflict zones around the world, including a profile of the former chef to deceased dictator Kim Jong-iI of North Korea and a young female journalist_s tale of sharing the mud crabs of the title, with a just-as-young Hamid Karzai (Afghan president) in a foxhole._, _By sharing memories of meals eaten with refugees, with soldiers, with friends made in unlikely war-torn places--and in one case, with their captors--the 18 journalists whose stories appear here provide an unusual tour of the wars of our time. . . . The reporters' locales, experiences and voices bring a variety of courses to the table._, _It may not be the usual light holiday read, but it's a fascinating one. This compilation of food-centric stories from foreign correspondents around the world will put you at the table with well-fed dignitaries and on mountainsides in Afghanistan with soldiers digging through their MREs (meals ready to eat)._, _An exceptional choice for those who enjoy finding out the hidden culinary lives of the people whom we read about in the daily press. . . . A pleasurable read such as this would be a great addition to a course on the subject of food and memory, or even as lightly intellectual fare for the food enthusiast. Highly recommended._, An exceptional choice for those who enjoy finding out the hidden culinary lives of the people whom we read about in the daily press. . . . Highly recommended., "In this riveting collection, correspondents share war stories through the lens of food and drink."-- Mother Jones, "An exceptional choice for those who enjoy finding out the hidden culinary lives of the people whom we read about in the daily press. . . . Highly recommended."-- Indiana Food Rev, _If breaking bread is key to our humanity, it is doubly so in a conflict zone. In this riveting collection, correspondents share war stories through the lens of food and drink. . . . The food rituals become a vehicle for tales of greed and pettiness, but also friendship and human dignity._
Table of Content
Introduction: The Name of the Third Chicken: Kosovo Matt McAllester Part One: 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 Part Two: 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 Part Three: 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 Part Four: 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 Biographies Acknowledgments Index
Copyright Date
2011
Lccn
2011-017737
Dewey Decimal
394.1/2
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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