Free Press 2012 Trade paperback New

ISBN10: 1416583947, ISBN13: 9781416583943, [publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York] Softcover Paperback. The award-winning, powerful portrait of life in the Middle East, that weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival. In the fall of 2003, as Iraq descended into civil war, Annia Ciezadlo spent her honeymoon in Baghdad. For the next six years, she lived in Baghdad and Beirut, where she dodged bullets during sectarian street battles, chronicled the Arab world's first peaceful revolution, and watched Hezbollah commandos invade her Beirut neighborhood. Throughout all of it, she broke bread with Sunnis and Shiites, warlords and refugees, matriarchs and mullahs. Day of Honey is her story of the hunger for food and friendship during wartime--a communion that feeds the soul as much as the body. In lush, fiercely intelligent prose, Ciezadlo uses food and the rituals of eating to uncover a vibrant Middle East most Americans never see. We get to know people like Roaa, a young Kurdish woman whose world shrinks under occupation to her own kitchen walls; Abu Rifaat, a Baghdad book lover who spends his days eavesdropping in the ancient city's legendary cafs; and the unforgettable Umm Hassane, Ciezadlo's sardonic Lebanese mother-in-law, who teaches her to cook rare family recipes (included in a mouthwatering appendix of Middle Eastern comfort food). From dinner in downtown Beirut to underground book ...
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ISBN10: 1416583947, ISBN13: 9781416583943, [publisher: Free Press] Softcover New
[Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]

ISBN10: 1416583947, ISBN13: 9781416583943, [publisher: Free Press] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.75
[North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2012]