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Author(s):	Annia Ciezadlo

Date:	2011-02-01	Format:	EPUB	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1416583939
Pages:	400	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9781416583936
Uploader:	Gustavi	Upload Date:	11/11/2014 11:27:29 PM

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American Book Award Winner
Winner of Books for a Better Life Award (First Book)
James Beard Foundation Award Nominee
BNN Discover Awards, second place nonfiction

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 worlds 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 wartimea 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 citys legendary cafs  and the unforgettable Umm Hassane, Ciezadlos 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 clubs in Baghdad, Day of Honey is a profound exploration of everyday survivala moving testament to the power of love and generosity to transcend the misery of w

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