Prodigy: Korean BBQ

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Legendary East Coast rapper Prodigy (Mobb Deep) served over 3 years in prison, but because of his sickle cell disease, had to eat well or he'd be painfully ill. The prison food, as you can guess, wasn't exactly full of vitamins. So, he wrote "Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook," with dozens of recipes he and his fellow inmates would cook with foods available to them on the inside.

Host Rachel Belle also talks with Death Row Chef Brian D. Price, author of "Meals to Die For," who has cooked 218 last meals in Texas for condemned inmates before they banned last meals in 2011. He's got some amazing stories, and is trying to get the practice reinstated.

Also on YLM this week, Matt Rodbard, author of "Koreatown: A Cookbook," and Rachel makes & eats a dish from Prodigy's cookbook called Prison Surprise!

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.8	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show. This is your last meal.
0:23.5	I'm your host Rachel Bell.
0:24.8	Every episode I interview a celebrity about what they would eat for their last meal.
0:28.3	And then we explore the history of that food, the culture, and whatever else we can cram into 30 minutes.
0:33.4	Today on the program, Prodigy, half of the rap group Mob Deep,
0:37.4	one of the most group Mob Deep,
0:38.9	one of the most critically acclaimed and successful hardcore East Coast hip-hop groups.
0:41.6	Remember that whole East Coast, West Coast
0:43.0	90s rap battle?
0:44.3	They were a part of that.
0:47.5	You can put your whole army
0:49.3	against my team and I guarantee you
0:51.3	it'll be your very last time.
0:53.3	Your simple words just don't move me. You're minor. We major. Prodigy, A.K.A.
0:57.3	Prodigy, A.K. Albert Prodigy Johnson.
1:00.2	Went to prison in New York in 2008 for three and a half years. He was charged with a legal
1:04.8	possession of a firearm. And while he was there, he cooked. Not as a job in the prison
1:09.8	dining hall, but with the other inmates in the common area.
1:13.2	We get a few hours out of our cell per day to chill in the day room and cook or watch TV or use the phone
1:21.4	or, you know, play chess or checkers or cards or read a book or something.
1:25.3	So during those times, you know, me and the guys that I hung out with, we would always cook
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