Amazon recommended this to me. I really enjoy quirky memoir-style cookbooks that tell a story along with the recipes. You can read my review of Bruculino, America on this blog. I ordered it when it popped up in my recommendations.
Now, first off, I'm not a Ramen eater. I find the stuff gross. And I LIKE salt. For a chunky former smoker, my blood pressure is super low, so I can enjoy my salt. Ramen? Ick. But for some unknown reason, Ramen is like the IN food right now. The restaurants are popping up all over and recipes using Ramen as a base are all over social media. Again, a no from me.
But for inmates, Ramen is better than state cafeteria food. It's also much more filling. With a little creativity and assorted condiments from the prison commissary, one can actually make a lot of variations.
This book is written with either a celebrity arrest story or a specific event from the authors' pasts as inmates. My personal favorite celebrity story was Slash's (the guitarist from Guns N Roses).
But the real stories, those of the former inmates, were harsh, real, and emotionally tough to read. Ramen, meaning non-prison food, was a source of hope.
Find this on display soon as January's theme is NEW YEAR, NEW BOOKS!
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