Professional Chef, teacher, author, and story teller, Artie Cuisine paid his debt to society cooking all the way. From dorms to solitary confinement, cooking in prison was his recreation, currency, safety net, and challenge. Growing up in a family that ate tasty home-made meals at a properly laid table, the entire process fascinated him from early childhood. His "professional" career commenced age 11, standing on a milk crate to work the saute station of a local restaurant. Artie received his culinary degree in New York, and went on to study in Asia. Returning to the United States, he learned chocolate work, candy making, and sugar sculpting with a renowned Swiss pastry chef. Then, ten years into his dream career and working with New York's most prestigious chefs ... WHAM! He became "A Guest of The State". With a natural talent for cooking, being creative with food had never been a challenge ... until the cell doors clanged behind him! No more truffles, foie gras or flavored oils, and no more fancy equipment; his kitchen sometimes comprised a toaster, microwave, and/or hotplate. His footlocker doubled as a pantry, well stocked, but with foodstuffs he had to think more than twice about before trying to prepare a meal. To maintain his dignity, he often threw a white sheet "tablecloth" on his locker, and made "centerpieces" with cups of fresh "baked" garlic bread sticks. He contrived to make prison cooking, and prison eating, an art.Using permitted foods, he tested recipes, made notes, mailed handwritten pages to his publisher via his lawyer, and "JAILHOUSE COOKBOOK: The Prisoner's Recipe Bible" was born. Artie wrote this "Cooking 101" primer to teach inmates how to eat well in prison, and inspire them with the possibilities of a restaurant chef job later. He also wanted to help others who want to cook but don't have a proper kitchen. Following his release, Artie moved overseas, where he spends his time cooking, eating, writing, and jogging on the beach with his dog. More about Artie Cuisine is revealed in his upcoming autobiography, "19 YEAR RUN: Hotshot NYC Kid, Party Animal, Elite Drug Dealer, Brilliant Chef, and "Guest of The State".