Forget porridge ... jail's the place for bream and cake (French prison)

[kskiska]

Fancy a "solitary salad" or some "jail-style apple pancakes"? French prisoners have published their own cookbook to teach other inmates how to make low-budget meals with prison cooking equipment.

Cooking Just For Me, seeks to live up to France's gastronomic reputation, featuring 100 recipes by inmates that range from sophisticated fish dishes to rich chocolate cakes.

"Cooking in prison forces you to be creative: you only have a pan, a saucepan and an electric stove ," Claude Deroussent, a doctor in the Ensisheim prison in south-eastern France, who launched the project, told Reuters.

Dr Deroussent called on France's 60,000 inmates last year to send in their favourite recipes and asked renowned chef Marc Haeberlin to select the best out of 600 replies.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1212111,00.html

[Obamarama]

1. God, I love France....

Food is such an honored cultural thing there....

[burrowowl]

2. Unlike U$

prisons they can worry about food and not being ***** and oh did I forget to mention U$ run prisons in Iraq.

[kskiska]

3. I remember watching a French movie

and was stunned at a prison scene where there were bottles of wine in the mess hall.

[PartyPooper]

4. "It's a good thing", says Martha Stewart.

I'm sure she'll be the cat's meow when she hits the mess hall in her Connecticut prison.

Bon apetit, everyone!

:D