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Photo Gallery High Security Haute Cuisine

Behind the walls of a German prison, jailbirds are learning to cook. Their haute cuisine debut in Aachen society comes in October.
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Not exactly gemütlich: But the staff cafeteria at JVA Aachen, a high-security prison, will be converted to a gourmet restaurant for paying guests in October 2007.

Foto: Oliver Rahayel
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Hermann S., who suggested the project to prison authorities, is a convicted cocaine dealer.

Foto: Oliver Rahayel
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The kitchen is fitted out for a chow hall, not haute cuisine; but these pots will have to do. The convicts will cook filet of John Dory on lukewarm ratatouille, suckling pig and cinnamon zabaione.

Foto: Oliver Rahayel
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The guests will sit here by candlelight at €75 a head. The staff cafeteria, at least, has no bars on the windows. But the glass is bulletproof.

Foto: Oliver Rahayel
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