Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook

Amazing book! One of my husbands favourite rappers of all time hands down. Ingredients are not hard to find at all and very budget friendly. Can always replaced canned ingredients with fresh if you choose to also. This book has got my man in the kitchen and excited about it too :)

Great book, it was delivered very quickly!

Now I can cook in jail

This book gives you a glimpse into how Prodigy (from Mobb Deep) born with sickle cell anemia, was able to eat "healthy" in prison for 3 years.The author states it in the intro, that it's not a cookbook.Broken into 6 sections, you learn about food constraints in prison, tools of the trade, the basics meals, meals Prodigy would eat all the time, meals he would eat some of the time and finally, classic prison dishes.You can recreate the dishes throughout the book, but using higher quality ingredients would mess things up.To me, this book is an example of how resourceful people can be when they truly want to improve both mentally and physically when in prison.If you want to rehabilitate prisoners, you need more nutritional food options served in prisons.After seeing what is given to prisoners, I am highly motivated to remain a lawful citizen.The photos of all of the meals are presented bold with tons of color.The copy I received had a glossy raised graphic on the cover, feels like a coffee table book.This is a nice gift for a hip hop fan, a foodie, or just anyone who wants to learn about how tough eating in jail can be.

If you know someone who is incarcerated, you've undoubtedly heard a lot about what prisons provide as "food". "Commissary Kitchen" thankfully does not go into great detail on this. Instead, it talks about how to make more healthful and flavorful meals with the resources that may available to inmates. Each prison system has different rules, so the recipes in the book may not apply to all situations.Johnson also provides anecdotes about prison life that are amusing and entertaining, while underscoring the difficulties of prison life. He speaks in his language which tends to be coarse and vulgar, but then so is the prison environment. If you don't like swearing, you probably won't appreciate this book.This is a short book, but it may be useful to inmates, or help those who know them to better understand their situation.