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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 Kims 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 McAllesters words, with a little more humanity than we can usually slip into our newspapers and magazine stories.About author(s):Matt McAllester is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a contributing editor at Details magazine. He is author of Bittersweet: Lessons from My Mothers Kitchen, Blinded by Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddams 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.
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: University Of California Press
