Kebabing Along

“When I went to Afghanistan in August, I was prepared — sort of — for the acres of crashed airplane carcasses that greeted us upon arrival at the Kabul International Airport; I was prepared for the heat and the dust and the fact that much of the place is essentially a pile of rubble. I was even prepared for the traffic (just before I left, The Wall Street Journal pointed out that there were almost 200,000 registered vehicles in the city — and no traffic rules to speak of). What I was not prepared for was the food. It is delicious.” —New York Times Magazine