Tales of a Jailhouse Gourmet: How I learned to Cook in Prison

The Daily Beast ^ | June 21, 2014 | Daniel Genis

[WXRGina]

Just from the initial paragraphs... WHAAAAAAA!!!

Be glad you’re not the Marine in Mexico, buddy.

[DemforBush]

Interesting article. I’d heard about makeshift prison “pizza” (made from ramen noodles and cheez whiz, IIRC), and of course, I’ve heard of the infamous Pruno prison wine. But I had not heard of the level of ingenuity that these guys have been doing.

[WXRGina]

ping

[berdie]

There is actually a cookbook written by the now and formerly incarcerated for sale on Amazon.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

A guy my dad worked in the woods with had a hilarious story about his kid in the county jail on the phone with his mom giving instructions on how to make milk gravy.

[PAR35]

Interesting post.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Many to choose from here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=prison%20cookbook&sprefix=prison+coo%2Caps&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aprison%20cookbook

[luvbach1]

Definitely interesting. One-of-a-kind post.

[wyokostur]

Preppers ping...maybe??

[TaMoDee]

During the RVN Circus the McIlhenny Co Tabasco brand hot pepper sauce put out a camo colored covered cookbook entitled “Cooking Under Bullets”. My wife sent it to me.
They did recipes with C-Rats and hot sauce. I still have the little book somewhere.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Impressive but not even close to what we did living rough on deployments. Of course we had the luxury of cooking over burning C-4.

[cripplecreek]

Nothing new under the sun. Pierre did a lot of cooking on Hogan's Heroes.

[2ndDivisionVet]

“Cockroach .... you made strudel! Ah, wunderbar!”

[cripplecreek]

Actually its kind of interesting that so many of those who lived through WWII turned around and made a comedy about it relatively soon afterward.

[2ndDivisionVet]

People today get POW camps and Konzentrationslagers (concentration camps) mixed up. They were not the same things, at all. BTW, the reason the US Army Air Forces made their enlisted crewmen Staff Sergeants and above was because the Luftwaffe treated prisoners better the higher your rank was.

[VerySadAmerican]

I liked the C-Rats.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[rlmorel]

"...Dried pasta and canned goods are prepared with nothing more than a pair of nail clippers..."

Eeeeewwww!

[cripplecreek]

Robert Clary (Frenchie) is a Jew saw Buchenwald and Auschwitz up close and personal from the inside. He was the only surviving one of 12 members of his family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clary

Werner Klemperer fled Germany in 1935 and ended up entertaining troops in the Pacific theater. His cousins Otto was a composer and Victor survived in Germany due to his marriage to a German socialite. He wrote extensively on how the nazis convinced Germany to give them power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Klemperer

John Banner (Shultz) also Jewish was lucky enough to be in Switzerland when the nazis seized his native Austria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Banner