Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar

Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents Volume 31
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-38575-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 232 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 197 mm, Gewicht: 264 g

Reihe: 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."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcallester, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften: Ernährung & Gesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Kochen, Essen, Trinken
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.