Isthmus Inside Stories

Albert Watson

Episode Summary

Albert Watson leads a cooking club inside the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center. In this episode, Albert shares a story with the UW-Madison Odyssey Program writing class, exploring the themes in the story and discuss how he crafted the story. The story focuses on the cooking club, made up of youth incarcerated at the center, and the day he saved the life of a teenager there. We talk about his philosophy of working with juveniles, his cooking club, and how to cook neck bones.