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To answer the question "Can Inmates Cook In Prison?", Chef Artie Cuisine has written a deliciously entertaining, biographical jailhouse cooking saga, a vivid portrayal of an incarcerated NYC chef's culinary life cooking in jail. Once he discovered he could cook his own food in prison he leapt to the task with relish. Rudely eloquent and irreverent this is a quirky journey of physical and emotional survival. Chef Artie wrote recipes for inmates while paying his debt to society. A 262 page, no-holds-barred tell-all about a stubborn, plucky, resolute chef's passion to cook and eat well in prison while serving time. This lighthearted insight into what it's like to cook while incarcerated in a New York prison, is part story, manual, food survival handbook, humor and inspiration. Determined that inmates should eat no more spreads, he developed these 110 hard-to-believe can be cooked in prison gourmet recipes, complete with detailed instructions, for a demanding inmate clientele of high flying embezzlers, drug czars, extortionists "etc" who insisted on decent prison meals. Learn how to cook in prison, and also how to make these delicious recipes in school dorms, RVs, on camping trips, at home, and IN JAIL, any place without a proper kitchen. This prison cook book is lightweight and easy to store. Devising banquets in prison cells was his recreation, his currency, his safety net, and his challenge. He became obsessed with inmate cooking and prison recipes. Artie's survival mantra "No oven? No stove? No problem!" strengthened his resolve to eat well in prison - even in the 'Box'. Cooking was a daily dare. Self preservation equalled gang protection in exchange for dinner on the table. Years in the trenches of NY's finest restaurant kitchens prepared him for this. He proudly followed the Marine credo: 'Improvise, Adapt, Overcome'. He writes: "Sure in winter you can put sodas out on the window sill, but inmate recipes for baking 3-layer cakes and fresh pizzas in an oven-less prison dorm?" Inmates passing Artie's area were astounded to see fresh pasta hanging to dry, a white sheet thrown over a locker as a dining table, a centerpiece of cell-made garlic breadsticks, and bowls of mouthwatering food. Could this really be inmate cooking? Those wanting to pick up kitchen skills and eat well pitched in with food or labor. This is 'Cooking 101'. Mastering Artie's techniques for decent prison food could set you on a career path for a job on the outside in a restaurant kitchen. Recession proof skills to have - Everybody Eats! He spent two years preparing and writing recipes for prisoners, and mailing them to his publsher via his lawyer's office every few days. Find prison cooking "how to" for foods you crave in these chapters: Breakfast Items; Soups & Entrees; Taste of Spain; Asian Corner; Little Italy; Some Sauces & A Few Extras; Desserts & Sweet Things, and an unexpected Holiday Menu chapter with sumptuous dishes for a prison Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas: Pineapple-Glazed Baked Ham; BBQ Fried Chicken; Roast Garlic Whipped Potatoes; Candied Yams; Caramelized Onion & Corn Stuffing; Apple Orange Cranberry Sauce; Cookie Crusted Pumpkin Pie; and more. This is a must-have jail cook book. Chef Artie also reveals how to navigate cooking in the prison system with: Equipment to Make Your Cooking Life Easier; Food Items Sold at My Commissary; Food and Utensils My Facilities Allowed Sent in From Outside; and Typical Foods I Requested From Home. This prison cookbook has a Glossary, and Weights and Measures tips - a 16 oz bean can speaks for itself! So hold onto your toque, grab your apron, and take a wild ride with Chef Artie as he weaves his magic with these prisoners recipes. Chef Artie lives in Europe, cooking, eating, writing and jogging on the beach with his dog. He is a restaurateur, TV chef and food and restaurant consultant.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ GoodReadBooks, Inc.; First Edition (January 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615419275
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615419275
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

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Professional Chef, elite drug dealer and story teller, Artie Cuisine is a TV & Radio Chef, Great Host, and author of JAILHOUSE COOKBOOK: The Prisoner’s Recipe Bible, BBC News ranked most upmarket prison cookbook.

A lovable rascal, entrepreneur, and mover and shaker, following a scandalous 19 year run as a hotshot New York City smart ass, party animal, kitchen wizard, and go-to drug dealer, he became a “Guest of The State”, which is lightheartedly detailed in his autobiography: ‘A 19 YEAR RUN: The Big Story, From Glamour to The Slammer’.

A smooth operator and storyteller, cooking in prison became his recreation, currency, safety net and challenge. From dorms to solitary confinement in The Box, Artie paid his debt to society cooking all the way!

With a natural talent for cooking, his ‘professional’ career commenced at age 11, standing on a milk crate working the sauté station in a local restaurant. He received his culinary degree in New York, took advanced culinary courses in Asia, and studied chocolate work, candy making, and sugar sculpting under a renowned Swiss pastry chef. Then, ten years into his dream career as an Executive Chef working with New York's most prestigious culinary masters ... WHAM!

He trashed a bright future choosing the instant gratification cocaine and fast money buys. While in prison he cooked and wrote to feel productive and worthwhile, preparing gourmet meals with the limited ingredients at his disposal, to the high standard his training required, and to the utter disbelief of his cell mates. He was also thrown together with Kings and Crips who protected him in exchange for cooking their favorite foods, with a gourmet flair! The recipe notes he smuggled out to his lawyer became the Jailhouse Cookbook.

Artie is no longer that cocky perp! He lives in a sunny place, owns a restaurant/bar, and spends his time cooking and writing, and jogging on the beach with his dogs.

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Pam Martin

Worthless for Texas Prisons...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2022

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It might be good elsewhere, but it only ended up teasing the person I sent it to in Texas because they can't get most of the stuff in it. Would be nice if in the description it specified which state(s) it was applicable to because it's not like it can be returned when it's sent to a prison inmate...and i felt really bad having teased them with recipes they can't make =/

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Leeah Glenn

Not made for someone incarcerated

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Sent it to a friend that’s incarcerated for their birthday. They told me that all the recipes call for things that you can’t get in prison unless you were in the prison the person that wrote it was from (apparently the author was in prisony land and could get all sorts of different snacks). Needless to say they couldn’t really utilize it very much. I told them to improvise as best as they could.

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Stephen Wilson

Creative cooking for novice and experienced cooks

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This book has good recipes that can be made at home or camping out... or in jail... Instructions for recipes are very detailed and easy to follow. I recommend this book for anyone who likes to cook. The author is upbeat given his circumstances and he goes to show that one can make the best of any horrible situation, if one puts ones mind to it. Of course, talent and creativity play a big part....and Artie is a highly skilled chef with lots of imagination. PVW, NC

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Missouri Prison Books

Excellent book to send to a reader inside.

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Sending them to readers in correctional facilities upon request.

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Sunshine

THIS IS NOW MY FAVORITE COOKBOOK!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 21, 2013

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I sent this book to a friend in prison who was desperately looking for recipes after he learned he could cook there. HE LOVED IT!!!
It seems the author went out of his way to make this book not just about cooking in prison and other places with limited resources,but also about the challenge of having something positive to look forward to every day.

This book is very cleverly written. I enjoyed the story before each recipe, Arties great wit and positive attitude made what must have been a difficult experience seem easy.

I REALLY RECOMMEND THIS AMAZING BOOK!!!

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Florida Foodie

fascinating

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This cook book is amazing! I love reading cook books, but I have never read one with such detailed explanations of each cooking process. The humorous, down to earth, decriptions of each culinary accomplishment is entertaining reading.

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Camille Kaminski

Great read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 18, 2020

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Helped my sister in jail a lot would recommend to other families with inmate family memebers

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L. Roper

She did say it had funny stories though

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 22, 2016

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Ok. I purchased this for a family member who is serving time and they said that most of the items are not available anymore. She did say it had funny stories though.

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