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Eating mud crabs in Kandahar [[electronic resource] ] : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents / / edited by Matt McAllester



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Titolo: Eating mud crabs in Kandahar [[electronic resource] ] : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents / / edited by Matt McAllester Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (226 p.)
Disciplina: 394.1/2
Soggetto topico: Survival and emergency rations
Food habits
War correspondents
Foreign journalists
War and society
Soggetto non controllato: afghanistan war
combat
female journalists
fighting
food and culture
food and north korea
food and war
food culture and history
food during war
food history
food literature
food lovers
foodie lit
international cuisine
international journalism
journalism and war
journalism in conflict zones
journalism stories
kim jong ii
life of a journalist
middle east journalism
modern journalism
palestinian militants
war and hunger
war in middle east
war journalists
war stories
war zone reporters
Altri autori: McAllesterMatthew <1969->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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."
Titolo autorizzato: Eating mud crabs in Kandahar  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-27821-9
9786613278210
0-520-94968-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910781676303321
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Serie: California studies in food and culture ; ; 31.