The Cookbook
The cookbook is a professionally printed 5.5 x 8.5 softcover book. The recipes are official Navy recipes that serve 100, so if you are cooking for a crowd this book will be extremely useful. We have also scaled the recipes down to 6-8 servings so that you can prepare Gitmo meals for your family.
Some of the recipes are Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine.
The recipes in the cookbook are standard Navy recipes that have been modified for the detainees to comply with halal requirements. We’ve tried them. They’re delicious, and easy to make. Most have 8 or fewer ingredients and can be made quickly.
The Gitmo Cookbook has over 100 pages of recipes, cooking tips, and even quotes about or applicable to Gitmo and the war on terror from sources as varied as Osama bin Laden, John Adams, Thomas Paine, Winston Churchill, and Shirley MacLain. In many cases, related quotes have been paired for the original (US Navy) recipes and the home version, as in the recipe for Parsley Buttered Potatoes:
- “Saddam’s torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management” – Sen. Ted Kennedy
- “Those who are shouting for ‘heads to roll’ over [Abu Ghraib] seem to have overlooked the fact that someone’s head has rolled – that of another innocent American brutally murdered by terrorists. Why is it that there is more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?” – Sen. Zell Miller
The Gitmo Cookbook also contains quotes from the detainees and interesting facts, such as -
- “The food is good, the bedrooms are clean and the heath care is very good. There is a library full of Islamic books, science books, and literature. Sports, reading, and praying, all of these options are not mandatory for everyone, it is up to the person.”
- More than 10% of detainees possess college degrees or obtained higher education at western colleges. Among the detainees are medical doctors, airplane pilots, aviation specialists, engineers, divers, translators, and lawyers.
- Abdullah Mahsud [Massood] was a detainee who was released in 2004 after claiming to be forcibly conscripted by the Taliban military to be an office clerk and truck driver. During his stay at Gitmo, his medical treatment included receiving a prosthetic leg. After his release, press reports from the Washington Post and Fox News indicate that al Queda linked militants, ordered by Mahsud, kidnapped two Chinese engineers in Afghanistan.
Baked Tandouri Chicken Breast, Mustard-Dill Baked Fish, Lyonnaise Rice, and Fish Amandine are just a few of the recipes you’ll find in the Gitmo Cookbook. We’ve tested them, and they are inexpensive, easy to make, and delicious.
The cookbook is available for immediate shipment! Order your copy now for only $10.95! 
The Gitmo Cookbook – helping you support the troops, mock the mainstream media, and eat like a Gitmo detainee!
