{"product_id":"9781911590491","title":"Small Fires","description":"\u003cb\u003e** INCLUDES A NEW AFTERWORD AND RECIPES **\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.”  -- Nigella Lawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.”  -- Olivia Laing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.","brand":"REBECCA MAY JOHNSON","offers":[{"title":"Steerforth Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-04-09","offer_id":44663256383743,"sku":"9781911590491","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbbc1b51-14b6-4e59-857c-5b086f0e6614.jpg?v=1704602682","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781911590491","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}