Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks

<p><b><i>Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks</i> </b>provides an innovative exploration of U.S.-based prison cookbooks using a narrative criminological approach.</p><p>The book relies on the voices of prison cookbook authors to argue that cookbook narratives are a form of communication with the free world. Further the book undertakes thematic analyses of prison cookery and narratives to illuminate the intersections of incarceration with abolition gender literacy and dehumanization. The reader is introduced to the power and symbolism of cell made food as well as the agency and resourcefulness of those who cook bake and write about food behind bars.</p><p><i>Prison Recipes and Prison Cookbooks </i>is of interest to instructors of courses covering the sociology of food criminology human geography and anthropology. The book is also appropriate for prison and probation services health organizations and anyone engaged in the criminal-legal system abolition movements or social reform.</p>