Jeremy Bentham's Prison Cooking: | Faculty of Laws
Explore a collection of recipes from Jeremy Bentham’s manuscripts, revealing his ideas for providing cheap, nourishing food in his never-realised Panopticon prison. Among the vast collection of manuscripts written and composed by Jeremy Bentham is a curious, short series of papers entitled ‘Panopticon - cookery, errors of present practice’. These manuscripts form the basis of Jeremy Bentham’s Prison Cooking, a brief introduction to Bentham’s never-realised panopticon prison scheme which so dominated a period of his life. The manuscripts contain a series of recipes which were collected and (seemingly) destined for the panopticon’s kitchen, with the intention of providing the inmates with cheap, nourishing food. The book features beautiful original illustrations by Jake Lamerton, and contains images, recipes, and notes from Bentham’s manuscripts, which were transcribed by contributors to the award-winning Transcribe Bentham initiative. Jeremy Bentham’s Prison Cooking also features a fore