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© 2011 by Matthew McAllester

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Eating mud crabs in Kandahar : stories of food during wartime by the world’s leading correspondents / edited by Matt McAllester.

p. cm.—(California studies in food and culture; 31)

ISBN 978-0-520-26867-8 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Survival and emergency rations—Anecdotes.   2. Food habits—Anecdotes.   3. War correspondents—Anecdotes.   4. Foreign journalists—Anecdotes.   5. War—Social aspects—Anecdotes.   I. McAllester, Matthew, 1969–

TX357.E286 2011

394.1′2—dc23

2011017737

Manufactured in the United States of America

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