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

Title
Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents / edited by Matt McAllester.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.

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Additional Authors
McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
Description
214 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
A collection of eighteen essays by journalists while on foreign war-time assignment about their experiences with food and the people who shared it.
Series Statement
California studies in food and culture ; 31
Uniform Title
California studies in food and culture ; 31.
Subjects
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.
Call Number
JFD 14-4975
ISBN
  • 9780520268678 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520268679 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2011017737
OCLC
712114149
Title
Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents / edited by Matt McAllester.
Imprint
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011.
Type of Content
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Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
California studies in food and culture ; 31
California studies in food and culture ; 31.
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McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
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JFD 14-4975
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