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PublisherSteerforth Press

ISBN-101911590480

ISBN-139781911590484

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Book TitleSmall Fires : an Epic in the Kitchen

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFeminist, Culinary, Customs & Traditions, Essays & Narratives

Publication Year2023

GenreLiterary Criticism, Cooking, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRebecca May Johnson

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Dewey Edition23

Reviews"An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it" --Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious, a radical feast of flavours and ideas" --Olivia Laing "Small Fires is a smart, creative and thoughtful book: it challenges us to think more about how and why we cook, and confounds our expectations of what food writing can be" --Ruby Tandoh "Liberating... a new way to write about food" --Jonathan Nunn "I loved this genre-busting book which made me look differently at every recipe that I cook. Through a mix of memoir and philosophy, Rebecca May Johnson shows that cooking can be a wild kind of magic" --Bee Wilson "Destined to become essential reading for anyone interested in writing about food... Bold, beautiful, daring... It is a book that changed me" --Rachel Roddy "Small Fires is a tender, electric, intimately transformative work. Rebecca May Johnson has written her own glowing epic, reshaping the notion of the recipe as a text alive with possibility. In her hands, recipes become memory objects, acts of translation, expansive spaces full of feeling" --Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water "Rebecca May Johnson's scintillating soliloquy on cooking adds a whole new dimension to food-writing, and pulls the tablecloth out from beneath a lot of stale (and often male) assumptions about the nature and value of domestic labour. I'll never think of a 'recipe' in the same way again" --Fuchsia Dunlop " Small Fires is like nothing else I have read. Truly unique, truly unusual, it weaves together cooking, dancing, and the Odyssey in a riveting, and moving exploration of what counts as knowledge. It had me rethinking what a recipe is, what cooking is, what is 'I' and what is 'you'. It is a book that asks profound and serious questions while also being musical, erotic, and deeply pleasurable. Being in the company of Rebecca May Johnson's voice -- companionable, intimate, questioning -- was a sheer delight. I didn't want it to end." --Katherine Angel, "A gorgeous book...I love to read about the body and I love to read about food, and this tender little book allowed me to do both." --Saba Sams, The Guardian " Small Fires is a manifesto for reclaiming cooking as an intellectual... a rewarding book that stayed with me -- and, like all brilliant food writing, it made me think twice about what I choose to eat and who I eat it with... a brave, honest book." -- Sunday Times "Rich in pleasure and revelation." -- Observer " Small Fires possesses an intellectual fleet footedness and exuberance akin to the writing of Deborah Levy or Rebecca Solnit, as sentences skip between mischievous punning and impassioned agitation... the enthusiasm of the writing here is generous, embracing and emboldening." -- i news "I recommend the book for its insightful, radical, beautiful essays - and for all the kitchen dancing." -- The Guardian " An electrifying read." -- Olive magazine "Revolutionary... this is a book that wakes up the reader''s senses and delivers critical arguments "spattered" in oil, like the pages of a much-used recipe book, making them palatable." --Times Literary Supplement "Just incredible... a real revelation." --Sky Arts Book Club "An electrifying, genre-breaking mixture of food writing, memoir and philosophy, asking profound questions about desire, community, appetite and the body" --Rebecca Tamás, Observer "An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it." --Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I''ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious, a radical feast of flavours and ideas." --Olivia Laing "Small Fires is a smart, creative and thoughtful book: it challenges us to think more about how and why we cook, and confounds our expectations of what food writing can be." --Ruby Tandoh "Liberating... a new way to write about food." --Jonathan Nunn "I loved this genre-busting book which made me look differently at every recipe that I cook. Through a mix of memoir and philosophy, Rebecca May Johnson shows that cooking can be a wild kind of magic." --Bee Wilson "Destined to become essential reading for anyone interested in writing about food... Bold, beautiful, daring... It is a book that changed me." --Rachel Roddy "Small Fires is a tender, electric, intimately transformative work. Rebecca May Johnson has written her own glowing epic, reshaping the notion of the recipe as a text alive with possibility. In her hands, recipes become memory objects, acts of translation, expansive spaces full of feeling." --Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water "Rebecca May Johnson''s scintillating soliloquy on cooking adds a whole new dimension to food-writing, and pulls the tablecloth out from beneath a lot of stale (and often male) assumptions about the nature and value of domestic labour. I''ll never think of a ''recipe'' in the same way again." --Fuchsia Dunlop " Small Fires is like nothing else I have read. Truly unique, truly unusual, it weaves together cooking, dancing, and the Odyssey in a riveting, and moving exploration of what counts as knowledge. It had me rethinking what a recipe is, what cooking is, what is ''I'' and what is ''you''. It is a book that asks profound and serious questions while also being musical, erotic, and deeply pleasurable. Being in the company of Rebecca May Johnson''s voice -- companionable, intimate, questioning -- was a sheer delight. I didn''t want it to end." --Katherine Angel "The most compelling book about cooking I''ve read this year, perhaps ever. Rebecca is a writer of extraordinary intelligence and wit, and I would push this book with feverish enthusiasm into the hands of anyone who spends time in the kitchen." --Jackson Boxer''s Christmas gift guide, Evening Standard "Brave, funny, thought-provoking, heart-warming, and like nothing else you will have ever read." --The best food books for Christmas, Club Oenologique, " Small Fires is a manifesto for reclaiming cooking as an intellectual... a rewarding book that stayed with me -- and, like all brilliant food writing, it made me think twice about what I choose to eat and who I eat it with... a brave, honest book." -- Sunday Times "Rich in pleasure and revelation." -- Observer " Small Fires possesses an intellectual fleet footedness and exuberance akin to the writing of Deborah Levy or Rebecca Solnit, as sentences skip between mischievous punning and impassioned agitation... the enthusiasm of the writing here is generous, embracing and emboldening." -- i news "I recommend the book for its insightful, radical, beautiful essays - and for all the kitchen dancing." -- The Guardian " An electrifying read." -- Olive magazine "Revolutionary... this is a book that wakes up the reader's senses and delivers critical arguments "spattered" in oil, like the pages of a much-used recipe book, making them palatable." --Times Literary Supplement "An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it." --Nigella Lawson "One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious, a radical feast of flavours and ideas." --Olivia Laing "Small Fires is a smart, creative and thoughtful book: it challenges us to think more about how and why we cook, and confounds our expectations of what food writing can be." --Ruby Tandoh "Liberating... a new way to write about food." --Jonathan Nunn "I loved this genre-busting book which made me look differently at every recipe that I cook. Through a mix of memoir and philosophy, Rebecca May Johnson shows that cooking can be a wild kind of magic." --Bee Wilson "Destined to become essential reading for anyone interested in writing about food... Bold, beautiful, daring... It is a book that changed me." --Rachel Roddy "Small Fires is a tender, electric, intimately transformative work. Rebecca May Johnson has written her own glowing epic, reshaping the notion of the recipe as a text alive with possibility. In her hands, recipes become memory objects, acts of translation, expansive spaces full of feeling." --Nina Mingya Powles, author of Small Bodies of Water "Rebecca May Johnson's scintillating soliloquy on cooking adds a whole new dimension to food-writing, and pulls the tablecloth out from beneath a lot of stale (and often male) assumptions about the nature and value of domestic labour. I'll never think of a 'recipe' in the same way again." --Fuchsia Dunlop " Small Fires is like nothing else I have read. Truly unique, truly unusual, it weaves together cooking, dancing, and the Odyssey in a riveting, and moving exploration of what counts as knowledge. It had me rethinking what a recipe is, what cooking is, what is 'I' and what is 'you'. It is a book that asks profound and serious questions while also being musical, erotic, and deeply pleasurable. Being in the company of Rebecca May Johnson's voice -- companionable, intimate, questioning -- was a sheer delight. I didn't want it to end." --Katherine Angel, "'An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it' - Nigella Lawson 'One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious, a radical feast of flavours and ideas.' - Olivia Laing 'Small Fires is a hypnotically riveting and exhilaratingly thought-provoking read. As nourishing as the recipes contained, this book will forever change your experience of cooking, and is an absolute joy to read.' - Lara Williams 'Small Fires is a tender, electric, intimately transformative work. Rebecca May Johnson has written her own glowing epic, reshaping the notion of the recipe as a text alive with possibility. In her hands, recipes become memory objects, acts of translation, expansive spaces full of feeling' - Nina Mingya Powles 'Destined to become essential reading for anyone interested in writing about food... Bold, beautiful, daring... It is a book that changed me' - Rachel Roddy 'Small Fires is a smart, creative and thoughtful book: it challenges us to think more about how and why we cook, and confounds our expectations of what food writing can be' - Ruby Tandoh 'I loved it start to finish - bliss to be in the kitchen with Rebecca May Johnson, with one eye firmly on the movable pleasures of cooking and eating, always... One for you if you like A Ghost in the Throat, The Argonauts, MFK Fisher and fried foods of any and all descriptions' - Anna Kinsella, author of Look Here 'Liberating... a new way to write about food' - Jonathan Nunn (Vittles) 'This is a simply brilliant book. Raucously funny and searingly intelligent. It will make you wonder why writing about food and writing about anything aren't more like this' - Amelia Horgan, author of Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism 'At the start of her first book, writer, academic and fearless boundary-basher Johnson confides a desire to ""blow up the kitchen"". Small Fires does exactly that, rebuilding something epic from morsels of funny memoir, acute social criticism and food writing the likes of which you'll never have read before. Taking its prompts from 10 years spent cooking in as many different kitchens, it reclaims that domestic space as one of intensely physical thought... Rich in pleasure and revelation.' - Observer 'A manifesto for kitchen liberation and the radical possibilities of eating.' - Refinery29 'Small Fires is a manifesto for reclaiming cooking as an intellectual act, railing against centuries of the kitchen being dismissed as a place where women mindlessly make food to sustain men... a rewarding book that stayed with me - and, like all brilliant food writing, it made me think twice about what I choose to eat and who I eat it with... a brave, honest book.' - Sunday Times 'Small Fires possesses an intellectual fleet footedness and exuberance akin to the writing of Deborah Levy or Rebecca Solnit, as sentences skip between mischievous punning and impassioned agitation... the enthusiasm of the writing here is generous, embracing and emboldening.' - i news 'The Home Cook Who Wants to 'Blow Up the Kitchen'' - New York Times 'In 'Small Fires' Rebecca May Johnson Rethinks the Boundaries of a Recipe' - Eater 'In Rebecca May Johnson's First Book, the Kitchen Is a Site of Self-Discovery' - Vogue 'Finding the Radical Potential in Nigella Lawson's Food' - Lithub '[Small Fires] offers an interesting lens through which to view how and what and why we cook, and the intimacy of sharing a meal' - Toronto Star "

Dewey Decimal392.37

Synopsis'An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it' - Nigella Lawson 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. 'One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious, a radical feast of flavours and ideas.' - Olivia Laing 'A tender, electric, intimately transformative work' - Nina Mingya Powles, "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., 'An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking, which stayed with me long after I finished it' - Nigella Lawson

LC Classification NumberGT2855