{"product_id":"small-fires-an-epic-in-the-kitchen","title":"Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen","description":"\u003cp\u003e** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES **\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.” -- Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.” -- Olivia Laing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmall Fires shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49633656012871,"sku":"9781911590491","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/2732\/7047\/files\/9781911590491.jpg?v=1791477319","url":"https:\/\/anchovybookco.com\/products\/small-fires-an-epic-in-the-kitchen","provider":"Anchovy Book Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}