Small fires : an epic in the kitchen / Rebecca May Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Rebecca May, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Social aspects.

Cooking.

Kitchens--Social aspects.

Kitchens.

Sex role.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Kitchens in literature.

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : One an imprint of Pushkin Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Cooking is thinking! The spatter of sauce in a pan, a cook's subtle deviation from a recipe, the careful labour of cooking for loved ones: these are not often the subjects of critical enquiry. Cooking, we are told, has nothing to do with serious thought; the path to intellectual fulfilment leads directly out of the kitchen. In this electrifying, innovative memoir, Rebecca May Johnson rewrites the kitchen as a vital source of knowledge and revelation. Drawing on insights from ten years spent thinking through cooking, she explores the radical openness of the recipe text, the liberating constraint of apron strings and the transformative intimacies of shared meals. Playfully dissolving the boundaries between abstract intellect and bodily pleasure, domesticity and politics, Johnson awakens us to the richness of cooking as a means of experiencing the self and the world - and to the revolutionary potential of the small fires burning in every kitchen"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Prologue in the kitchen

Apron strings

The semiotics of the kitchen

Cooking is a method

The kitchen is a weaving room

Hot red epic

Tracing the sauce text

Unlovely translations

Refusing the recipe

Consider the sausage!

Again and again, there is that you

Every day a new dawn, a new dish.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-188).

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781911590484

1911590480

OCLC:

1308525379