Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar

Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents

Buch | Softcover

232 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38575-7 (ISBN)

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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. 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."

Matt McAllester is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and a contributing editor at Details magazine. He is author of Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mother's Kitchen, Blinded by Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib 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 School of Journalism, where he teaches international reporting. His website is www.mcallester.com.

Introduction: The Name of the Third Chicken: Kosovo
Matt McAllester

Part One: 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

Part Two: 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

Part Three: 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

Part Four: 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

Biographies
Acknowledgments
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.10.2021
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Food and Culture ; 31
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 203 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-520-38575-6 / 0520385756
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38575-7 / 9780520385757
Zustand	Neuware