Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents - California Studies in Food and Culture

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."

ISBN:	9780520385757
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	21 Sep 2021
DEWEY:	394.12
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	278g
Height:	152mm
Width:	201mm
Spine width:	15mm

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