Book on the Axis of Evil Cuisines
Foreign affairs analyst Chris Fair is now a cookbook author—sorta. She created culinary plans of attack for some of the world's most clashing regions: North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, China, Pakistan, and the United States. Her recently released book Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States offers a history of each nation's geopolitical sins, followed by regional recipes like Palestinian casserole or in the case of the U.S., beer butt chicken. As she points out, food has always been a metaphor for foreign identity, and it's at dinner parties where we discuss politics. Her findings make a really good case for Kim Jong-il just being hungry every time he got internationally grumpy. Read this interview with her in the Washington Post yesterday.
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3 Comments:
ugh...I'm about as leftwing as they come, but lumping the US and Israel in with places like North Korea is mindbogglingly stupid.
rps at 3:47PM on 08/28/08
I don't know what the food looks like, but that cover art is cuuuuuute.
missginsu at 6:41PM on 08/28/08
@rps: I'm pretty sure the U.S. falls under the "irritating states" category, not the Axis of Evil.
piccola at 9:39PM on 08/28/08