Publisher's Synopsis
Imagine being sentenced to ten years in jail. How would you survive? Confessions of a Prison Cook: A Fusion of Food & Crime is based on the true story of a New York banker's incarceration and redemption after becoming the inmates' chef.
Phil Longo is sent to Otisville federal prison in upstate New York for a decade. With just a strong Italian sense of food learned through family, he cons his way into what becomes a redemptive role as Kitchen Cook; drugging twin felons with nutmeg; stuffing stolen veggies down empty prosthetic legs. Drunks. Monks. Chinese gangsters and one-legged cooks. Food wasn't even the spiciest part of his experience. But it does act as an olive branch to "OtisVillains" like Joey, a handsome Mafia mademan who grooms his black hair with mayonnaise from the commissary; Jesus, chocolate-obsessed teen cousin to the Mexican cartel, or The Greek Brothers, obnoxious twins that live to stir the pot. Phil learns life is truly stranger than fiction. He gains rich insight into his fellow man and realizes: no one is rotten to the core.
