{"product_id":"johnson-may-rebecca-small-fires-9781911590491","title":"Small Fires","description":"** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES **\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.\" -- Nigella Lawson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\u003cp\u003eThis joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\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\n\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\n\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":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Used - very good","offer_id":53497060950358,"sku":"9781911590491-V","price":7.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Used - good","offer_id":53374076617046,"sku":"9781911590491-G","price":6.89,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781911590491_1_e052f559-d6c3-4401-b29f-f5519c0876b0.jpg?v=1778043388","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/johnson-may-rebecca-small-fires-9781911590491","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}