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“I re-read this book in the autumn while on an extended research trip and it was such a wonderful companion - challenging, smart, warm, and revolutionary, it unpicks what a recipe is or can be.”
— Christina • Lighthouse Bookshop
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.
Rebecca May Johnson has published essays, reviews, and nonfiction with Granta, Times Literary Supplement, and Daunt Books Publishing, among others, and is an editor at the trailblazing food publication Vittles. Small Fires is her first book.
Kim Bretton is an Audie Award nominee, a Broadway World Award winner, and was voted Best Actress in Nashville by the Nashville Scene. She has narrated over 100 audiobooks to date. Prior to moving from London to NYC in 2005, Kim worked predominantly on the London stage both originating roles in West End productions and playing in long-running shows both in London and on national and international tours. She has played in numerous Shakespeare and classical works as well as musical theater and modern plays. Her TV and film credits include Call Red for ITV, Don't Look Back for New Forest Films, the lead role in the 1990s TV series Mentors, and an obscene amount of radio and voice-overs. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, ten years ago and continues to do theater roles in between writing, directing, and voice-over work.
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Audiobook details
Author:
Rebecca May Johnson
Narrator:
Kim Bretton
ISBN:
9798350887228
Length:
4 hours 22 minutes
Language:
English
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc.
Publication date:
December 19, 2023
Edition:
Unabridged
Libro.fm rank:
#44,620 Overall
Genre rank:
#246 in Cooking