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

Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: McAllester, Matthew,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Series:California studies in food and culture ; 31
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10492901
Table of 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.