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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