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An unforgettable portrait of a place and a people shaped by centuries of art, trade, and war.
In the middle of the salt-frosted Afghan desert, in a village so remote that Google can t find it, a woman squats on top of a loom, making flowers bloom in the thousand threads she knots by hand. Here, where heroin is cheaper than rice, every day is a fast day. B-52s pass overhead a sign of America s omnipotence or its vulnerability, the villagers are unsure. They know, though, that the earth is flat like a carpet.
Anna Badkhen first traveled to this country in 2001, as a war...

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2011 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION WRITING AND LITERATURE AWARD FINALIST

Travel books bring you places. War books bring you tragedy. In Peace Meals, war reporter Anna Badkhen brings us not only an unsparing and intimate history of some of the last decade's most vicious conflicts but also the most human elements that transcend the dehumanizing realities of war: the people, the compassion they scraped from catastrophe, and the food they ate.
Making palpable the day-to-day life during...