CONTENTS

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