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

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

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Description 224 p.
Series California studies in food and culture ; 31
California studies in food and culture ; 31.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Survival and emergency rations -- Anecdotes.
Food habits -- Anecdotes.
War correspondents -- Anecdotes.
Foreign journalists -- Anecdotes.
War and society -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author McAllester, Matthew, 1969-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520268678 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520949683 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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