Books
Cooking with Time
Smuggled Potato Salad, Dirty Pasta, Prison Teriyaki, Hooch, and Solitary Baked Pie! These are a few of the simple and scrumptious recipes in Cooking with Time. A labor of love, written and illustrated by incarcerated folks who find humanity in the everyday but profound act of sharing a meal, and fortitude in recollecting it. This book is also about memories of home, grandma’s cooking, music in the kitchen, and even their painful lives of incarceration.
Whether you’re looking for delicious but easy recipes or insight into the draconian New York prison system and the men and women forced to live under this hardship, this is a must-have book.
There are 2 versions!
To send to your loved ones inside prison has orange lettering
To read outside of prison has green lettering (this one has a recipe for Hooch that would not be allowed inside).
Scrolls from a Forgotten World
edited by Jamel Brown
"This collection is a dazzling testament to the drive and talent of these incarcerated authors, and to the truth that education is the key that sets us free."
Daniel Mendelsohn
Editor, The New York Review of Books