{"product_id":"small-fires-an-epic-in-the-kitchen-9781911590491","title":"Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen","description":"\u003cb\u003e** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES ** \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.\" -- Nigella Lawson \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.\" -- Olivia Laing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint and revolution, by a rising star in food writing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSmall Fires\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmall Fires\u003c\/i\u003e shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe paperback edition includes a new afterword and recipes for Ten-Minute Tomatoes and Cream Pasta, Meatballs with Tomato and Tarragon Cream Sauce, plus other ideas for tomato and cream combinations and platings inspired by a visit to the archive of groundbreaking English food writer Elizabeth David.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRebecca May Johnson has published essays, reviews and nonfiction with \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and Daunt Books Publishing, among others, and is an editor at the trailblazing food publication \u003ci\u003eVittles\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eSmall Fires\u003c\/i\u003e is her first book.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50614107603218,"sku":"9781911590491","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b17383ca-d5a3-4e98-a66c-803645636464.jpg?v=1732428551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/small-fires-an-epic-in-the-kitchen-9781911590491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}