Small Fires - An Epic in the Kitchen

Cooking is thinking!The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen.In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation. Drawing on insights from ten years spent thinking through cooking, she explores the radical openness of the recipe text, the liberating constraint of apron strings and the transformative intimacies of shared meals.Playfully dissolving the boundaries between abstract intellect and bodily pleasure, domesticity and politics, Johnson awakens us to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world - and to the revolutionary potential of the small fires burning in every kitchen.

About the author

REBECCA MAY JOHNSON has published essays, reviews and nonfiction with Granta, Times Literary Supplement and Daunt Books Publishing, among others, and is an editor at the trailblazing food publication Vittles. Small Fires is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca May Johnson
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781911590484
• ISBN: 978-1-911590-48-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > General, dictionaries, tables; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, Food & society, Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: children, Biography and non-fiction prose, Cultural studies: food and society, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs