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The `Day of Honey' is neither a cookbook nor a travel book: it is a free of stereotypes journey through the cultures of the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iraq and back to New York city. In a very tensed world, facing wars and violence, food is the only recipe for peace and dialogue. It is a book that should be included in the list of the compulsory bibliography of any diplomat ready to enter the real world of wars and peace between the nations. Being able to eat is part of the basic survival, but sharing the food is the art of the conversation between the cultures. The dialogue around the table goes far beyond the global level and focus on the very person and human communication: if you love your children you give them food good food. If you want a future for them, you plant the seeds of the new harvest and do your best for avoiding as much as possible the possibility of avoiding the causes of destruction of your harvest. It could be life threatening effort to try changing a society manipulated by war thugs and fanatic leaders, but at least you can hope that when the war is over you do not forget how to broke bread around the dinner table. This could be more available for Lebanon whose South was and is extensively used as a war area by the terrorist Hizbullah who does not put any price on the life of their own people.
Besides the good writing, the Day of Honey is a wise lesson in public diplomacy, but also a lesson of good taste and good food. Honestly, from the beginning to the end of the book, I was all the time hungry and ready to taste a fresh pita and some good hummus. I finished the book just in time for getting ready to prepare one of the recipes included at the end of the volume.


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Day of Honey A Memoir of Food Love and War Annia Ciezadlo 9781416583936 Books Reviews

I loved this book - couldn't put it down. The positive reviews say it all - Anna Ciezadlo is a gifted writer, an alert reporter, a courageous young woman and the recipes included are a bonus.

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." Without giving away the stories she relates, I recommend buying this book and preparing for a few hours of adventure in the Middle East 2003-2011. Her reflections on Beirut and Lebanon are outstanding. Learning to combine her passion for food and honest reporting, she uses some humor, allows us into her family life, and will keep you riveted thru all 358 pages. The glossary, and select bibliography which includes food websites is valuable in understanding Arabic and food enjoyed by middle eastern countries.
This is a well written edifying book that is also pure joy to read. I agree with the other reviewers who gave it a 5 and will not repeat their already good summaries. I married a foreigner and I've traveled and lived abroad and I appreciate her objective compassion, good sense, and balance in entering other cultures. I love food and think it central to social relationships as well as approaching a culture. While you learn about Iraq or Lebanon, you are entertained with humor and references to food that make you feel a sensual delight. This book is a gem. I just wrote to my book club recommending that we read it, confident that we will have such fun sharing our reactions. And you always have to laugh. This lady really is focused on food. In situations where most of us would be too scared to think about eating, she always circles back to her appetite! A metaphor for an appetite for life!
Really enjoyed many aspects of this book - the way she made Beirut come alive (a city I have never been to), the recipes in the back (there are a few I will try), her character writing (the MIL is a true princess; I'm surprised she didn't cause a divorce), the lovely sentences, etc...but most of all, I like the way her story reminded me a lot of some dear Palestinian friends (the
Lebanese and Palestinian cultures are
not dissimilar.)

One large gap in the narrative that I found annoying, however, is that the reader never tells us anything about the years when her interest in food developed, presumably the years spent in upstate NY working as a waitress. She makes certain that we know about her Greek heritage, and her homeless childhood (I.e. she is not some elite "foody"), but nothing at all about the restaurant background behind the story. And this seems a little more disingenuous when she admits to being in the Middle East as a freelancer who didn't even earn enough to pay for an apartment - in other words, she was over there as a
wife "with a talent and opportunity". Restaurant work was a big part of her real career; it was disappointing not to
be able to read about it at all.
Cielzadlo professes to be a journalist, but she is really a philosopher and playwrite. Her characters are real people she knows, but we all know them as people we know
well wherever we live and whomever we are. Remakably is Umm Hassane who is familiar in any family or a frustrating friend, anywhere in the human race.I laugh out loud at her words on paper, because she is so universally outlandish! Mohamad Bazzi, her loveable husband, plays a strong steady hand for the smart, curious, almost fearless, foodie author.
Mohamed tells her, "The war would never end..you ended it yourself," The author finds an inner light in almost everyone in the midst of the carnage or war. She finds paradise on Mutanabbe Street and cuisine in Shabbandar. You will want want to join her.
Beautiful people ultimately must leave the wreckage of war to save their soul. They must take with them the poetry, cuisine and culture, the humor and literature and shared memories.
Will war never end as Mohamad claims? Can we feast with our fellow man and laugh at their humor? Can we join them for a drink and have a chat? Is "fast food" the real weapon of mass destruction, replacing the aromatic stovetop, fireplace, tabletop dressed with fresh and cooked creations in the company of friends and family?
You read Annia and wish for world peace!
The `Day of Honey' is neither a cookbook nor a travel book it is a free of stereotypes journey through the cultures of the Middle East, from Lebanon to Iraq and back to New York city. In a very tensed world, facing wars and violence, food is the only recipe for peace and dialogue. It is a book that should be included in the list of the compulsory bibliography of any diplomat ready to enter the real world of wars and peace between the nations. Being able to eat is part of the basic survival, but sharing the food is the art of the conversation between the cultures. The dialogue around the table goes far beyond the global level and focus on the very person and human communication if you love your children you give them food good food. If you want a future for them, you plant the seeds of the new harvest and do your best for avoiding as much as possible the possibility of avoiding the causes of destruction of your harvest. It could be life threatening effort to try changing a society manipulated by war thugs and fanatic leaders, but at least you can hope that when the war is over you do not forget how to broke bread around the dinner table. This could be more available for Lebanon whose South was and is extensively used as a war area by the terrorist Hizbullah who does not put any price on the life of their own people.
Besides the good writing, the Day of Honey is a wise lesson in public diplomacy, but also a lesson of good taste and good food. Honestly, from the beginning to the end of the book, I was all the time hungry and ready to taste a fresh pita and some good hummus. I finished the book just in time for getting ready to prepare one of the recipes included at the end of the volume.