{"product_id":"day-of-honey-a-memoir-of-food-love-and-war-9781416583943","title":"Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning, powerful\u003c\/b\u003e portrait of life in the Middle East, that weaves history, cuisine, and firsthand reporting into a fearless, intimate exploration of everyday survival. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eDay of Honey \u003c\/i\u003eis her story of the hunger for food and friendship during wartime--a communion that feeds the soul as much as the body. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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 cafés; 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 clubs in Baghdad, \u003ci\u003eDay of Honey \u003c\/i\u003eis a profound exploration of everyday survival--a moving testament to the power of love and generosity to transcend the misery of war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnnia Ciezadlo received her M.A. in journalism from New York University in 2000. In late 2003, she left New York for Baghdad, where she worked for \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has also written about culture, politics, and the Middle East for \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic, The Nation, The Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e National Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Observer, \u003c\/i\u003eand Lebanon's \u003ci\u003eDaily Star\u003c\/i\u003e. Annia lives with her husband in New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50504383987986,"sku":"9781416583943","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9afe3a4-306a-4864-bfd3-282ccb53aa2f.jpg?v=1730818384","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/day-of-honey-a-memoir-of-food-love-and-war-9781416583943","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}