The Evin Prison Bakers Club : Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons in 16 Recipes

How do you cheer up a woman who has spent hours cleaning prison toilets with a broken mop? The secret is in a tres leches cake. In Iran’s prisons women endure horrors: they are beaten interrogated and humiliated in a thousand ways. Even a whisper to a fellow inmate can be punished. Yet – in spite of anything and everything – they resist: they bake. They console each other cry together dance together.Sepideh Gholian in prison since 2018 bakes scones for Nazanin Zaghari- Ratcliffe’s daughter a pumpkin pie for Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi madeleines for Marzieh Amiri serving time for a May Day demonstration in 2019. The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club is a call to stand up for Woman Life Freedom by a woman still fighting for a free Iran.