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In some respects, Cooking in Maximum Security is a completely ordinary book of recipes -- Starters, First Courses et cetera -- along with handy tips for making the dishes. In others, it is eye-opening.

All the recipes, and the inventions necessary to make them, were contributed by prisoners in Italian maximum security prisons. Not only that, but cooking is an essential and integral part of the prisoners' everyday lives.

Matteo Guidi, an anthropologist and artist who teaches in Italy and Spain, guided the process of compiling the book and told me more about it.

You can listen here.

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