Inmates wanting to pick up kitchen skills and eat well pitched in with food and labor. Mastering Artie's techniques could set you on a career path for an outside job in a restaurant kitchen. These are recession proof skills to have - Everybody Eats!
Seasoned Chef Artie Cuisine paid his debt to society cooking all the way! JAILHOUSE COOKBOOK is a no-holds-barred-tell-all cooking saga about a stubborn, plucky, resolute chef's passion to cook and eat well while serving time. Part story, manual, food survival handbook, humor and inspiration.
This "Cooking 101" primer teaches inmates - in institutions where inmate cooking is permitted - how to prepare gourmet meals in prison, without a kitchen, oven or stove. Inmates can...
- Learn how to cook gourmet meals in prison, and apply those skills on the outside later.
- Be inspired by the possibilities of a restaurant career. Many restaurant owners overlook prison records of hard workers with some kitchen skills.
- Find the act of cooking food provides a sense of comfort, accomplishment and self-esteem.
- As a good cook, gain standing in the inmate community.
- Be engaged in a positive, healthy activity making something they are proud of.
- Enjoy praise from fellow inmates (and staff) for the product of their labor.
- Earn "currency" for cooking custom items on request.
- Learn about American and international cuisine and common foreign food terms.
- Learn how to make the best of what's available at the commissary.
- Learn what foods and utensils are legally allowed sent in from outside.
- Feel useful and worthwhile, while alleviating boredom.
- Experience the comfort of cooking and eating away from the mess hall.
- Enjoy special Holiday Recipes for Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas.
- Artie says: "Just because we're incarcerated doesn't mean we can't celebrate the holidays in style".
- AND...Never have to eat another spread!
This deliciously edible and entertaining biography is rudely eloquent and irreverent, a quirky journey of physical and emotional survival. Years in the trenches of New York's finest restaurant kitchens prepared him for this. A you-are-there-reality that can only be told by someone who lived it - and cooked it! Devising banquets in prison dorms was his recreation, his currency, his safety net, his challenge 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 and an "escape". Self preservation=gang protection in exchange for dinner on the table!
Find recipes for foods you crave, especially in the unexpected Holiday Menu chapter with its sumptuous dishes for a prison Thanksgiving, Easter and Christmas: Pineapple-Glazed Baked Ham; BBQ Fried Chicken; Roast Garlic Whipped Potatoes; Candied Yams; Caramelized Onion and Corn Stuffing; Apple Orange Cranberry Sauce; Cookie Crusted Pumpkin Pie; and more.
For two Years Artie painstakingly tested and hand wrote 110 recipes with inspirational narratives, and mailed them to his publisher day after day. Here are 110 hard-to-believe-can-be-cooked-in-prison gourmet American and International recipes with detailed instructions, developed for a demanding inmate clientele of high flying embezzlers, drug czars, extortionists "etc." You can cook these recipes at home, in school dorms, RVs, on camping trips, and IN JAIL!
Chef Artie reveals how to navigate the prison system with chapters on: "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". There's a Glossary and Weights and Measures tips - a 16oz bean can speaks for itself!
In Jailhouse Cookbook, Artie Cuisine is at the top of his game, king of his genre. So hold onto your toque, grab your apron, and take a wild ride with Chef Artie as he weaves his magic in JAILHOUSE COOKBOOK: The Prisoner's Recipe Bible.
