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S'està carregant… Commissary Kitchen (edició 2016)de Albert "Prodigy" Johnson (Autor), Kathy Iandoli (Autor), Eddie Huang (Pròleg)
Informació de l'obraCommissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook de Prodigy
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Meals are perhaps the most important aspect of prison life. They keep inmates alive, both physically and emotionally, as mess halls and common areas provide a level of social interaction in an otherwise lonely situation. Albert "Prodigy" Johnson served three and a half years in prison, and during that time his focus was on his health--an almost impossible feat behind bars, where many inmates often enter the prison system healthy, but leave with diabetes and hypertension.Commissary Kitchen provides a deeper perspective of what it's like to consume meals in prison. While recipes are provided, Prodigy and co-writer Kathy Iandoli also tell various anecdotes about situations in prison involving food. Meal prep in prison is very limited, so while this work appeals to anyone who has served time or is curious about prison life, it also speaks to those who prepare food with limited access to various cooking luxuries (such as college students in dorms). While the work is informational, above all it humanizes the prison experience in a way that has never been done before. Albert "Prodigy" Johnson is a multi-platinum recording artist and member of the legendary hip-hop duo Mobb Deep. In 2006, Prodigy was arrested for gun possession and served a three-year prison term. In 2011, he released his first memoir, the critically-acclaimedMy Infamous Life. Since then, Prodigy has continued to release both solo projects and albums through Mobb Deep, touring worldwide. When he isn't touring, Prodigy is traveling the United States, lecturing at venues like MIT about the prison system and offering insight on changing the quality of inmates' lives. Kathy Iandoli is a critically-acclaimed journalist and author. Her work has appeared in publications such asPitchfork, VICE, Maxim, Cosmopolitan, theVillage Voice, Rolling Stone, Billboard, and many others. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Albert Prodigy Johnson, who is a rapper and has traveled the world has also been in four prisons during his sentence. He says that prison food is terrible and I believe him. There is so much salt in the food and often inmates are often offered highly sugared drinks with the meals. Therefore, many leave with diabetes and hypertension that they did not have before. He has sickle cell anemia so he knew that he be very sick often if he depended on the prison food. I wanted to know more about his experience with sickle cell. Does he receive medicine for it, see a hematologist while in prison. How does he cope with it. He did say that exercise is necessity for him when coping with sickle cell and the prison does well in offering opportunities for that. He had never cooked before going to prison. He watched other inmates cook and improvised. Creating new recipes is a stress reliever and distracts him from his worries.
As for the recipes, I will not be trying any of them. Most of them just won't work for me as a diabetic and a vegetarian. A lot of what he does is takes the basic food that he is offered and tweek them with condiments that he is able to order, buy or receive from people on the outside. He has to deal with a lot of canned food as there is no way to keep anything refrigerated. So that pretty much eliminates frozen and fresh food which is much more nutritious.
If anyone is interested in prison reform, I think this should be required reading. Also, I would like to encourage the author to take some cooking classes to enrich his knowledge and enjoyment of his new hobby.
I received this finished copy by making a selection from Amazon Vine books but that in no way influenced my thoughts or feelings in this review. I also posted this review only on sites meant for reading not for selling. (