CONFESSIONS OF A PRISON COOK: A FUSION OF FOOD & CRIME

  Beverage maker Health-Ade has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit alleging several of the company’s kombucha products contain toxic “forever chemicals.” Alanna Morton, a New York resident, filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, claiming the company misleadingly marketed and advertised its kombucha as a “health” product even though it tested positive for dangerously high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. The lawsuit claims PFAS were found in the company’s Ginger Pineapple Belly Reset, Mint Limeade, Cayenne Cleanse, Pomegranate Berry and Strawberry Glow with bamboo extract and biotin products.

A New Mexico woman  faces  assault charges  after she stabbed a  wheelchair-bound man  in the eye with a  plastic #candycane . https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jun/01/new-mexico-woman-stabbed-man-eye-candy-cane

In 2016, a man in London called police when a café served him the wrong flavor of #tea and then shared the incident online resulting in massive backlash against him.  https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/caf-customer-who-called-police-over-wrong-type-of-tea-faces-backlash-a3335851.html

This is killer John Wayne Gacy's last meal.  In the chapter "Last Suppers" in our book CONFESSIONS OF A PRISON COOK we go over the last meals of the famed and infamous. Here is an excerpt: JFK: a Dallas breakfast of soft-boiled eggs, bacon, orange juice, toast and coffee. John Lennon: gave a corned beef sandwich a chance from Stage Deli in New York City. Abraham Lincoln: enjoyed a Presidential feast at the White House on Good Friday that included mock turtle soup, roast Virginia fowl with chestnut stuffing, baked yams and cauliflower with cheese sauce. Timothy McVeigh : The Oklahoma bomber destroyed two pints of mint chocolate Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. It is rumored PETA contacted him and asked he choose a meatless meal. Marilyn Monroe : gazpacho, taco dip, meatballs, refried beans, veal parmigiana, robust chicken breasts