Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar (eBook)

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

Matt McAllester (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
232 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-94968-3 (ISBN)

Infos

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."

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.10.2011
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 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 • foodie lit • Food literature • food lovers • 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
• ISBN-10: 0-520-94968-4 / 0520949684
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-94968-3 / 9780520949683