{"product_id":"confessions-of-a-prison-cook-philip-longo-9781954968844","title":"Confessions of a Prison Cook: A Fusion of Food \u0026 Crime","description":"Imagine being sentenced to ten years in jail. How would you survive? \u003ci\u003eConfessions of a Prison Cook: A Fusion of Food \u0026amp; Crime\u003c\/i\u003e is based on the true story of a New York banker's incarceration and redemption after becoming the inmates' chef.\u003cbr\u003ePhil Longo is sent to Otisville federal prison in upstate New York for a decade. With just a strong Italian sense of food learned through family, he cons his way into what becomes a redemptive role as Kitchen Cook; drugging twin felons with nutmeg; stuffing stolen veggies down empty prosthetic legs. Drunks. Monks. Chinese gangsters and one-legged cooks. Food wasn't even the spiciest part of his experience. But it does act as an olive branch to \"OtisVillains\" like \u003cb\u003eJoey\u003c\/b\u003e, a handsome Mafia mademan who grooms his black hair with mayonnaise from the commissary; \u003cb\u003eJesus\u003c\/b\u003e, chocolate-obsessed teen cousin to the Mexican cartel, or \u003cb\u003eThe Greek Brothers, \u003c\/b\u003e obnoxious twins that live to stir the pot. Phil learns life is truly stranger than fiction. He gains rich insight into his fellow man and realizes: no one is rotten to the core. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe guards may have been the wildest diners, bar none: \u003cb\u003eGreta\u003c\/b\u003e, a bitter blowhard who longs to hose down the inmates; tiny French cook \u003cb\u003eLouie, \u003c\/b\u003ewhose greasy food is a foil for his sleazy behavior; \u003cb\u003eTeresa\u003c\/b\u003e, a Muslim patrol guard whose raunchy split personality flavors the narrative; and Kitchen Cop, \u003cb\u003eNoreen\u003c\/b\u003e, or \"Sip,\" whose sobriety is measured by the state of her beehive hairdo. Top it off with a pinch of insatiable and inept \u003cb\u003eNurse Blackie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShort chapters center on coop calamities: \u003cb\u003eSLING BLADE\u003c\/b\u003e, where tuna can tops become cut-throat\u003cb\u003e; RIN TIN TIN FOILED\u003c\/b\u003e, where Phil's elderly mother smuggles homemade lasagna in- inside her girdle. Or \u003cb\u003eMEAT AND GREET\u003c\/b\u003e, where Phil fetches outside foods for famous Italian gangsters under the nose of Fury, the penitentiary's canine cop. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOriginal tongue-in-cheek recipes top off chapter's jarring insanity. Cook up \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKilling Two Birds with One Scone, Blackened Soul, Beat Bread, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eor\u003cb\u003e Deep Throatisserie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFamous food \u0026amp; crime quotes, from The Sopranos to Shakespeare, flavor the narrative. Add a dash of historical culinary crimes, and wet your appetite for this piping hot, dark and saucy dramedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Longo, Erika Somerfeld\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954968841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954968844\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Waterside Productions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.66lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d","brand":"Philip Longo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46431451087103,"sku":"9781954968844","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28613472-08a9-4483-a721-4c399514f581.jpg?v=1735141377","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/confessions-of-a-prison-cook-philip-longo-9781954968844","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}