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Originally Posted by Froide

Random reactions to this book post:

• Don't give Teresa Giudice (more) ideas (she's written three best-selling cookbooks and while incarcerated is writing a memoir)
• Not surprised Martha Stewart didn't "go there" with a book, even though while incarcerated as BOP Prisoner # 55170-054 she got media coverage addressing jailhouse microwave cooking
• The book's price implies it's targeting not prisoners but those who love them
• Far cry from Phil Leotardo (and Tony B's Rasta friend of a friend's)'s grilled cheese sandwiches made on a prison radiator
• Wowza, there's a boatload of books about microwave cooking in prison. I'm surprised I'm surprised, given: (1) America's prison industrial complex is huge and growing, and (2) microwaving food is a regular occurrence on Orange Is the New Black

Do prisoners in some prisons in the U.S. have their own microwaves, or do most, if not all, have them in common areas where they can use them? How about the U.K.? Years (30 or 40) ago, it was common in the U.S. to hear people be critical of prisoners having color TVs in their cells. I don't hear that anymore, I don't know why.