TY - BOOK ID - 77883553 TI - Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world's leading correspondents PY - 2011 SN - 1283278219 9786613278210 0520949684 9780520949683 9780520268678 0520268679 0520385756 PB - Berkeley : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Survival and emergency rations KW - Food habits KW - War correspondents KW - Foreign correspondents KW - War and society KW - Correspondents, Foreign KW - Reporters and reporting KW - Society and war KW - War KW - Sociology KW - Civilians in war KW - Sociology, Military KW - Correspondents, War KW - Journalists KW - Eating KW - Food customs KW - Foodways KW - Human beings KW - Habit KW - Manners and customs KW - Diet KW - Nutrition KW - Oral habits KW - Abandon-ship food packets KW - Emergency rations KW - Field rations KW - Food packets, Survival KW - Life-raft food packets KW - Rations, Survival and emergency KW - Food KW - Social aspects KW - Foreign journalists KW - afghanistan war. KW - combat. KW - female journalists. KW - fighting. KW - food and culture. KW - food and north korea. KW - food and war. KW - food culture and history. KW - food during war. KW - food history. KW - food literature. KW - food lovers. KW - foodie lit. KW - international cuisine. KW - international journalism. KW - journalism and war. KW - journalism in conflict zones. KW - journalism stories. KW - kim jong ii. KW - life of a journalist. KW - middle east journalism. KW - modern journalism. KW - palestinian militants. KW - war and hunger. KW - war in middle east. KW - war journalists. KW - war stories. KW - war zone reporters. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77883553 AB - 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." ER -