For my final project I will be doing a jail cookbook. I was thinking of putting sorts of recipes in it like the unique stuff they’ve come up with or just the general stuff they would eat while they’re inside the jail. My mother works as a corrections officer so me and her have teamed up to ask some questions to the prisoners to help out with the project. Since they can’t physically help me, we've just asked questions such as, since they’ve been inside what kind of dishes have they had or have they been introduced to. I was thinking about also attaching a video making one of two of these dishes and trying it myself cause there’s actually one dish I’ve never actually tried but I would really like to try. This has been a tradition and culture in prison for the inmates to make it through.
So I put together a series of recipes and did a video of cooking one of them with my stepfather who used to be incarcerated
The first recipe is called a one on
Top Ramen
Can of Tuna
Mayonnaise
We first had to boil water then we cracked open the can of tuna and the ramen noodle. We put the tuna in the bowl chopped it up, poured the noodles into the water so it can loosen up we then poured the noodles into the bow with the tuna, put the mayonnaise in it and mixed it all up
The second recipe is called the Jack Mack
Jack Mackeral
Flour
Grease
My stepfather informed me that this was their way of making salmon in prison. They would clean off the sardine drop it in the flour and dump it in the grease
The last recipe doesn’t have a name but it involves a honey bun but it’s basically a pb&j sandwich and it served as more of a snack then a meal
Honey bun
Bread
Peanut butter
Jelly
You would get your bread spread the peanut butter on it then slapped the honey bun on it and you would get the other piece of bread with jelly spread and put it together and get a new kind of pb&j
I believe prison is supposed to be a rehabilitation center so that the people that go in there can come out as upstanding citizens of the law again rather than a detention center where you have your spirit broken and will to go on shattered. These types of activities allowed people to, as my stepfather said “survive”. Honestly there wasn’t any real work that inspired me but this whole semester I’ve been doing works about the Black Lives Matter movement so I believe it was inevitable for me to do this. I like to bring light to disparities in this country and I believe our prison system is one of them.
Resources
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/activity:6925066036408901632
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2022.html
https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/reportage-2/instagrams-prison-chefs-are-cooking-up-a-storm/
No comments:
Post a Comment