Description
| Product ID: | 9781911590491 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Small Fires |
| Subtitle: | An Epic in the Kitchen |
| Authors: | Author: Rebecca May Johnson |
| Page Count: | 208 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Biography and non-fiction prose, Cultural studies: food and society, Age groups: children, Age groups: the elderly, Prose: non-fiction, Food & society, Age groups: children, Age groups: the elderly |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating New in paperback: Small Fires is the thrillingly original book that is shaking up the food writing scene and challenging how we think about cooking and the kitchen “An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.” -- Nigella Lawson “One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.” -- Olivia Laing A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint and revolution, by a rising star in food writing This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen. Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -- that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books -- as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control. Small Fires shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere. |
| Imprint Name: | ONE |
| Publisher Name: | Pushkin Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-01 |
