Matt McAllester

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Matt McAllester has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Israel and Afghanistan. Closer to home, he’ll be cooking and talking about Bittersweet: Lessons From My Mother’s Kitchen, his moving tribute to his mother, as well us making Oeufs en Cocotte a la Crème, baking a loaf of bread and bringing salted almonds for sample.

Matt was a correspondent for Newsday for 13 years and spent much of that time as a foreign correspondent. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey, Nigeria and Lebanon and has reported in numerous other countries including Burma, Egypt, Morocco, Iran, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia, Argentina, Spain, Poland, Germany, Italy, France and Montenegro.

He has published several acclaimed books including: Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam’s Iraq and Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War in Kosovo, and has contributed to many others. He is currently a contributing editor at Details magazine.

Matt has won numerous awards for his journalism including the Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence, for his coverage of Nepal in 2006 and several overseas Press Club citations for his international reporting.

His latest book, Bittersweet: Lessons from my Mother’s Kitchen, published in the US in 2009 and in the UK in April 2010, is an unforgettable tale of family, food and love.

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“McAllester has produced in Bittersweet a scrupulously honest dispatch that’s every bit as gripping as a report from Abu Ghraib, and every bit as vital … a mosaic of the disorienting facts of life after death – the prayers we con ourselves with, the old sorrows we uncover – assembled with an utterly unsentimental eye.”
Newsweek

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