Death Row Recipes Cookbook

Firebox sell a paperback that collects the last-meal requests of America’s most notorious death row inmates. Each one is printed with the recipe and the story of the person who asked for it. Ted Bundy ordered nothing. John Wayne Gacy went for fried chicken and strawberries. The book is small, dark, and well-bound.

A few facts:

• Real recipes, real inmates, real backstory pages
• Paperback, gift-shop sized
• An unusual amount of fried chicken, given the variety on offer

A gift for: the friend who quotes Mindhunter at parties. Or the brother-in-law who needs another conversation piece for the kitchen.