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]
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Description	1 online resource (214 pages).
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.
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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 equinox.
Subject	Survival and emergency rations -- Anecdotes.
	Food habits -- Anecdotes.
	War correspondents -- Anecdotes.
	Foreign correspondents -- Anecdotes.
	War and society -- Anecdotes.
	Social sciences.
	Health.
	COOKING -- Essays.
	HISTORY -- Social History.
	Food habits. (OCoLC)fst00930807
	Foreign correspondents. (OCoLC)fst00931759
	Survival and emergency rations. (OCoLC)fst01139656
	War and society. (OCoLC)fst01170447
	War correspondents. (OCoLC)fst01170456
Genre/Form	Anecdotes. (OCoLC)fst01423876
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
Standard No.	9786613278210
ISBN	9780520949683 (electronic bk.)
	0520949684 (electronic bk.)

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