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Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World´s Leading Correspondents
Mcallester M
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Description for Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World´s Leading Correspondents
Hardback. Includes stories about food and eating under extreme conditions. This title features the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world. Editor(s): McAllester, Matt. Series: California Studies in Food and Culture. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; JFCV; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Series
California Studies in Food and Culture
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520268678
SKU
V9780520268678
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About Mcallester M
Matt McAllester is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Details magazine. He is the author of Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen, Blinded by Sunlight: Surviving Abu Graib and Saddam's Iraq, and Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo. He is also Visiting Professor of Journalism at the City University of New York Graduate ... Read more
Reviews for Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World´s Leading Correspondents
"In this riveting collection, correspondents share war stories through the lens of food and drink." Mother Jones "A fascinating read."
Amanda Gold San Francisco Chronicle "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."
Aziz Fatnassi Indiana Food Rev
Amanda Gold San Francisco Chronicle "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."
Aziz Fatnassi Indiana Food Rev