The document summarizes meetings held as part of a project called "Taste of Freedom" which brings volunteers to a prison on the island of Elba, Italy to discuss local recipes and cuisine with prisoners. Over multiple visits from December 2013 to April 2014, the volunteers and prisoners shared local recipes, discussed logos for the project, tasted cakes made by the prisoners, and looked forward to a future visit where the prisoners could cook in the prison kitchen. The goal of the project is to educate prisoners about local Elban food and culture through discussion and hands-on activities.

1. “Cooperativa sociale Beniamino Onlus”
- Isola d’Elba -
2° Meeting “Taste of freedom”
PROJECT N° 2013 - 1 - IT 2 - GRU 06 - 51940 4

2. Since the month
of December
we have made
two visit per month
to the prison of Porto Azzuro, in the morning
from 10,30 to 12,30.

3. 12 December 2013
Meeting with the prisoner explaining the programme.
The reaction of the prisoner was very positive, we
answer several questions, the prisoner are interested
and impression is that we can work well with them!

4. 17 December 2013
The Prisoner are telling us that, they did not get called
in the mornig of the meeting so same of theme got to
the meeting quite late, we had to start all over the daily
programme wich was base on local recipes, never the
less we had a good lecture about "The food of Elba”.
The prisoner asked a lots of questions showing
interest!!

5. 9 January 2014
We ask the Prisoners to make a Logo for "Taste of Freedom "
We had a long conversation about their local Food, and the
ingredients use in there territory.
Once more we ask to write for us local Recipe that wil be discussed
at our next meeting.

6. 21 January 2014
We got 12 different Logo and about 45
recipe!!
We had a very interesting morning
discussing every Logo and every recipe,
very happy to see how much effort they
put into our request, and how proud they
were of their work.

7. 21 January 2014

8. 21 January 2014

9. 21 January 2014

10. 27 february 2014
The prisoner are very happy to see us again, and they had
some cakes made by them, we tasted and promise that at
our next visit we would bring some local cakes, we got more
recipe and two more logo. Long summery and discussion
about what we have done so far.

11. 13 March 2014
We took the local cake to them and we had a
good time, then we told them about the history
of the recipe, we had a long conversation over
the different Cakes, how they are made, and the
different occasion in wich we eat them. The
prisoner told us, that at the next meetin they
will bring some more Cakes made by them.

12. 20 March 2014
The prisoner kept their promise and came with a
lots of cakes made in their Cell all very good, there
was a long explanation of how difficult was for them
to cook as they have very little facility, never the less
they did a good job .

13. 3 april 2014
The meeting consisted on discussing the different
products of Elba, such as Olive oil, vegetables,
Fruits, Honey and what-ever is produce in the Island.

14. 3 april 2014

15. 3 april 2014

16. 17 april 2014
We discussed everything including, Logo, Recipe,
Cooking, about our next visit, also most important,
asking permission to cook in the kitchen's Prison.
We hope that it will be possible as the prisoner are
looking forward to it.

17. Thank You for your
attention!
To be continued...