The moka pot is such a fundamental part of Italian culture that even prisoners in maximum security are allowed to keep them in their cells. The moka pot also lent its name to the MoCa Collective, a group of prisoners who coauthored Cooking in Maximum Security in collaboration with visual artist Matteo Guidi. In the case of Cooking in Maximum Security, you might suppose Italian prisoners have it easy. It’s a 15-day diary of the miserable rations he subsisted on without his usual cooking tools or ingredients. The recipes in Cooking in Maximum Security are sophisticated and appealing: turnip-top orecchiette “Salernitana-style;” stuffed guinea fowl, apple strudel, plum liqueur.