to top of page / A-Z index The Last Supper Marcos Zapata 18th century, Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco, Peru Christ and his disciples contemplate a feast of roast guinea pig Luard, Elisabeth. Sacred Food: Cooking for Spiritual Nourishment. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004 [2001], pp. 238-239 Roasted, curried, sweetened … guinea pig meat returns to the plates of Peru -- The Guardian (16 March 2020) Wikipedia

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• Camilla Parker Bowles’ [Queen Camilla] Last Meal Includes Wine, Chocolate, and Items Grown by King Charles [Tom Parker Bowles, British Food Critic/Writer son of Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom, interviews his mother...] -- Royals, CheatSheet (23 August 2023)
  
  
• 9 of The Strangest Last Meals Ever Requested -- History Defined (07 January 2023)
  
  
• The mystery of the human sacrifices buried in Europe's bogs -- BBCFuture (07 September 2022)
  
  
• Julie Green, Artist Who Memorialized Inmates’ Last Suppers, Dies at 60 -- The New York Times (17 November 2021)
  
  
• ‘It’s part of my faith’: Death row inmate calls for pastor to lay hands on him during execution -- The Guardian (07 September 2021)
  
  
• The ‘Hidden Punishment’ of Prison Food -- The New York Times (02 March 2021)
  
  
• How François Mitterrand ate his final roast ortolan -- The Guardian (30 December 2020)
  
  
• The last meals of US prisoners on death row, Photographer Jackie Black recreated the meals requested by US prisoners before they were executed -- BBCNews (16 August 2020)
  
  
• Last Meals on Death Row, a Peculiarly American Fascination -- The New York Times (10 March 2020)
  
  
  • A Gallery of Final Choices -- The New York Times (10 March 2020)
    
    
• Rayner, Jay. 2020. Jay Rayner's Last Supper. London: Faber & Faber.
  
  
• Strangest Last Meal Requests On Death Row -- (11:15 min, 30 November 2019)
  
  
• Final meal of Death Row inmate Russell Bucklew -- who raped ex and killed her lover -- Mirror (19 October 2019)
  
  
• Iceman's last meal was high-fat, high-calorie feast -- BBCNews (13 July 2018)
  
  
• The Ideal Subjects for a Salt Study? Maybe Prisoners -- The New York Times (04 June 2018)
  
  
• What Would Be Your Last Meal? For 600 Executed Prisoners, One Painter Memorializes Their Answers -- HuffPost (06 December 2017)
  
  
• 16 last meal requests from Nevada's death-row inmates -- Reno Gazette Journal (03 November 2017)
  
  
• Andy Warhol: Sixty Last Suppers -- Gagosian (Summer 2017)
  
  
• The End of the Death Row Last Meal? -- The Ringer (02 March 2017)
  
  
• Eric Maes, An-Sofie Vanhouche, Peter Scholliers & Kristel Beyens. A vehicle of punishment? Prison diets in Belgium circa 1900. Academia (06 February 2017).
  
  
• Prison food politics: the economics of an industry feeding 2.2 million -- The Guardian (30 september 2016)
  
  
• A cookbook for healthy eating -- in prison -- MPR News (07 October 2016)
  
  
• Last Meals on Death Row — What Do They Reveal About You? -- Psychology Today (28 Septemer 2015)
  
  
• Ramen Noodles Are Now The Prison Currency Of Choice -- NPR, The Salt (26 August 2016)
  
  
• Last Supper? Japan's diners divided over killer puffer fish -- theguardian (05 August 2016)
  
  
• Gatorade to lobster: Serial killers' last meals -- Stephen Loiaconi, HLN (19 November 2015)
  
  
• South American Mummies Once Snacked on Corn and Seafood -- LiveScience (23 February 2015)
  
  
  • Photos: Mummy Hair Reveals Ancient Last Meals -- LiveScience (23 February 2015)
    
    
• What’s in a Prison Meal? -- The Marshall Project, Life Inside (07 July 2015)
  
  
• Those who admit guilt on death row are more likely to request a last meal -- Ana Swanson, Washington Post (15 January 2015)
  
  
• Debunked: Texas prisoner-cannibal didn’t request child for last meal -- PolitiFactTexas (27 October 2014)
  
  
• 17 Death Row Requests You Won't Believe Were Made -- WhatCulture (17 October 2014)
  
  
• The History of the Last Meal – A final compassionate act or an undeserved reward? -- History is Now Magazine (24 May 2014)
  
  
• What Death Row Inmates' Last Meals Say About Guilt or Innocence -- ABC News (08 February 2014)
  
  
• Death Row Confessions and the Last Meal Test of Innocence -- Laws 2014, 3 (1): 1-11 <https://doi.org/10.3390/laws3010001>
  
  
• 'I have put in the hard yards' [Greg Semu's The Last Cannibal Supper] -- Stuff (30 October 2011)
  
  
• Texas’s dumb decision to ban last meals for death row inmates -- Washington Post (27 September 2011)
  
  
• Texas ends 'last meals' for death row inmates -- Los Angeles Times (23 September 2011)
  
  
• Meals To Die For [Brian D. Price, former Huntsville,Texas inmate,death row] (6:01 min, 05 October 2009)
  
  
  • Price, Brian D.Meals to Die For..‎ San Antonio, TX: Dyna-Paige, 2004.
    
    
• The Last Meal -- Esquire (27 June 2008)
  
  
• Last Supper, [Brian D. Price, former Huntsville,Texas inmate,death row] (58 min, 16mm, DV, 2005)
  
  
• Word for Word / Last Meals: For the Condemned in Texas, Cheeseburgers Without Mercy -- The New York Times (04 January 1998)

• Archbold, Rick, and Dana McCauley. Last Dinner On the Titanic: Menus and Recipes from the Great Liner. Hachette Books, 1997.
  
  
• Berenbaum, Michael, and Cara De Silva. In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
  
  
• Black, Jacquelyn C. ...last meal. Common Courage Press, 2003
  
  
• Black, Jacquelyn C. The Last Meals of the Executed: A Selection of Projects in Photography and Painting -- Prison Photography Accessed September 2023. https://prisonphotography.org/2011/03/13/the-last-meals-of-the-executed-a-selection-of-projects-in-photography-and-painting/.
  
  
• Bullington, Kevin. Creative Snacks, Meals, Beverages and Desserts You Can Make Behind Bars:: A Cookbook for Inmates (and others on a tight budget) looking to put the fun back into food. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
  
  
• Caldwell, Andrew. Their Last Suppers: Legends of History and Their Final Meals, Andrews McMeel, 2010.
  
  
• Clifton Collins, Jr., and Gustavo "Goose" Alvarez. Prison Ramen: Recipes and Stories from Behind Bars. NY: Workman Publishing, 2015.
  
  
• Collins, Christopher C. “Final Meals: The Theatre of Capital Punishment.” Theatre
  Annual 62 (2009): 88-102.
  
  
• Crawford, Bill (Ed.). Texas Death Row: Executions in the Modern Era. Plume, 2008.
  
  
• Cuisine, Artie. Jailhouse Cookbook: The Prisoner's Recipe Bible. NY: GoodReadBooks, 2013.
  
  
• DeadManEating.com
  
  
• Death Row Last Meals: Comfort Foods Most Popular Choice Of Prisoners, Study Finds -- Michael Hill, HuffingtonPost (29 August 2012)
  
  
• Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals -- Brian Wansink, Kevin Kniffin, and Mitsuru Shimizu, Cornell University Food and Brand Lab (24 August 2012)
  
  
• Dunea, Melanie. 2007. My Last Supper: 50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes. Bloomsbury USA.
  
  
• Ekkeg, Christoph C. Dead Man Cooking: Last Meals From Deathrow. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015.
  
  
• Final Meal Requests. Texas Department of Criminal Justice (2003-09-12)
  
  
• Fleury, John. The Death Row Cookbook: The Famous Last Meals (With Recipes) of Death Row Convict. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.
  
  
• Gatorade to lobster: Serial killers' last meals -- HLN (19 November 2015)
  
  
• Gordon, Terri J. “Debt, Guilt, and Hungry Ghosts: A Foucauldian Perspective on Bigert’s and Bergström’s Last Supper [film].” Cabinet Magazine. N.p., 2006.
  
  
• Haugen, Lee. "Last Meals of America: Works Cited." Ms. 30 April 2010.
  
  
• Hickey Jennifer G. Dining In With Capital Punishment. BNET, Insight on the News, 28 May 2001.
  
  
• I'll Have 24 Tacos and the Filet Mignon: Can a prisoner request anything for his last meal? -- Slate (10 November 2009)
  
  
• Is This Prison Food Cruel And Unusual? -- BuzzFeed Video
  
  
• Jeung, Stevie. "'I Did Not Get My Spaghetti-O’s': Death Row Consumption in the Popular Media.”  UCDavis Magazine Online. University of California, Davis, Volume 26 · Number 2 · Winter 2009.
  
  
• Johnson, Celeste, Ceyma Bina, Tina Cornelius, Barbara Holder, Trenda Kemmerer, and Louanne Larson. From the Big House to Your House: Cooking in Prison. Seattle, WA: The Justice Institute, 2010.
  
  
• Jones, Michael Owen. “Dining on Death Row: Last Meals and the Crutch of Ritual.” The Journal of American Folklore, vol. 127, no. 503, 2014, pp. 3–26. JSTOR, <www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.127.503.0003>.
  
  
• Karon, Tony. “Why We’re Fascinated by Death Row Cuisine.” Time, 10 August 2000.
  
  
• Kimball, Christopher. Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook. NY: Hyperion, 2010. [Homepage] [Documentary Film Information]
  
  
• LaChance, Daniel. 2007. “Last Words Last Meals and Last Stands: Agency and Individuality in the Modern Execution Process.” Law & Social Inquiry 701–24. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2007.00074.x.
  
  
• Mitchell, Patricia B. Yanks, Rebels, Rats, and Rations: Scratching for Food in Civil War Prison Camps. Patricia B. Mitchell, 2012.
  
  
• "Preparing Last Meals" from "Food & Life," Episode 1 of The Meaning of Food, PBS (approx 180 min., 2005, DVD 1700)
  
  
• Price, Brian D. Meals to Die For.‎ San Antonio, TX: Dyna-Paige, 2004.
  
  
• Smoyer, Amy B. Prison Foodways Bibliography.
  
  
• Treadwell, Ty, and Michelle Vernon. Last Suppers: Famous Final Meals from Death Row. Loompanics, 2001.
  
  
• Ugelvik, Thomas. The hidden food: Mealtime resistance and identity work in a Norwegian prison. Punishment & Society, January 2011 vol. 13 no. 1 47-63.
  
  
• Vogel, Mark R. “Dining on Death Row.” Food for Thought, 27 December 2006.
  
  
• Wansink, Brian, Kevin M. Kniffin, and Mitsuru Shimizu. Death row nutrition. Curious conclusions of last meals. Appetite. 2012 Dec;59(3):837-43. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2012.08.017. Epub 2012 Aug 25. PMID: 22925848. NIH National Library of Medicine.
  
  
• West, Caroline, and Mark Latter. Last Suppers: A Collection of Final Meals Through the Years. CICO Books, 2014.
  
  
• What Do People Eat When They Have One Meal to Live? -- Dashiell Bennett, The Wire, Atlantic (21 September 2012)
  
  
• Why We’re Fascinated by Death Row Cuisine -- TIME (10 August 2000)