Vogue may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. One of the most original food books I’ve ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious. If you like highly descriptive books and food, with those that combine serious thought, this is one to check out. This book often does not contain punctuation where you might expect it, which has the effect of, I think, hardening the prose. I’m sure there are a lot of things you’ve cooked repeatedly — why did that specific recipe stand out?

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I’ve read Nina Mingya Powles short work, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai (2020) and didn’t enjoy it, but did enjoy Nigella Lawson’s even shorter work, Eating: Vintage Minis (2017). But Johnson melds food criticism/cooking criticism into our very state of being in a very compelling way to me.

Tell me about how you envisioned and sold Small Fires , especially because it is so experimental and form-breaking. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights.

In brief: Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen; This Beating

Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe; the power of small fires burning everywhere. This work by Rebecca May Johnson is not only and introspective look at her life but also at how a humble sauce recipe has developed through the different stages of her life. 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. The narrative thread follows a logical trajectory, and readers are given glimpses of Johnson’s life and backstory but not too much insight…Just enough to keep you coming back for more, like a delicious meal you can’t get enough of! For her, it’s as much about the eating as the cooking itself; the sharing with another containing stories as rich as the measuring of ingredients.Even without reading its acknowledgments, you’d sense that Barnett’s latest novel derives from intense lived experience.

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very enjoyable and thought-provoking, especially the parts where cooking is not being compared too heavily to rilke poems or the odyssey (we get it, you have a phd, but you don't see me comparing the cooking of pasta to poetic dialogue in the work of pernette du guillet! McDonalds as architecture and a kind of public infrastructure is really interesting I think - it is a *space* in a way a Burger King or KFC quite pointedly are not.Untukku, Small Fires adalah kumpulan essay yang mengenalkan cara pandang lain dari buku memasak biasa dan stereotipe pekerjaan domestik yang patut diapresiasi. Harriet [Moore], my agent, brought me a few different books, and also that summer, I read Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts. Each performance of a recipe is a translation, in which a cook figures out “what they want to say when cooking.