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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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Details
- 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
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- California studies in food and culture ; 31California studies in food and culture ; 31.
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- Added Author
- McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-4975