{"id":10781,"date":"2016-10-10T01:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2016-10-10T02:01:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:01:57","slug":"commissary-kitchen-a-prison-cookbook-by-a-mobb-deep-rapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/commissary-kitchen-a-prison-cookbook-by-a-mobb-deep-rapper\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissary Kitchen, a prison cookbook by a Mobb Deep rapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA new cookbook is on the market about which its prison chef author Prodigy Johnson<\/a> of the rap group Mobb Deep writes, “This book won’t make you a better cook, but it might make you a better person.”<\/p>\n

Knowing what to eat and how to make it is evidently such an important part of prison life that there’s an entire cottage industry of cookbooks written on the subject. Inmate survival guides often have a section on food and how to use the commissary to augment prison diets. Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook, which will be published this month, is written by Prodigy and journalist Kathy Iandoli.<\/p>\n

In the book, Prodigy describes how his lifelong battle with sickle cell made him hyper-conscious of what he ate while incarcerated.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t afford to get sick in prison,” he writes. “My sickle cell is no joke, so I couldn’t eat poorly or not exercise. And everything in jail is designed to do the exact opposite.” This is just a hint of what sets Commissary Kitchen apart from other books in the genre \u2014 it’s about Prodigy’s experience of prison as much, if not more than, about the food itself…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hat tip to Marcella Simadiris<\/a> for the great find<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new cookbook is on the market about which its prison chef author Prodigy Johnson of the rap group Mobb Deep writes, “This book won’t make you a better cook, but it might make you a better person.” Knowing what to eat and how to make it is evidently such an important part of prison … <\/p>\n

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